11-26-2020, 10:33 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-26-2020, 10:36 PM by programmer_ceds.)
I'm with Rich2005 on this - I normally use a mouse when I use a laptop (and I'm not a big fan of laptop keyboards either!).
It may not help you as my laptop also has Linux Mint 20 (rather than Windows) but I have just been playing with the touchpad setup and there are two options that work well. I can set the touchpad for two-finger scrolling or edge-scrolling (one finger side to side along the bottom edge of the touchpad for horizontal scrolling or up/down the right-hand edge for vertical scrolling). By default horizontal scrolling wasn't enabled in the touchpad setup utility. If anything edge-scrolling on the touchpad may be better than using the mouse wheel.
I did find that, on the laptop at any rate, I could set the GIMP keyboard shortcuts to assign control-keypad-left to scroll left but it is painfully slow. Configuring the touchpad as noted above gives a much better response.
It may not help you as my laptop also has Linux Mint 20 (rather than Windows) but I have just been playing with the touchpad setup and there are two options that work well. I can set the touchpad for two-finger scrolling or edge-scrolling (one finger side to side along the bottom edge of the touchpad for horizontal scrolling or up/down the right-hand edge for vertical scrolling). By default horizontal scrolling wasn't enabled in the touchpad setup utility. If anything edge-scrolling on the touchpad may be better than using the mouse wheel.
I did find that, on the laptop at any rate, I could set the GIMP keyboard shortcuts to assign control-keypad-left to scroll left but it is painfully slow. Configuring the touchpad as noted above gives a much better response.