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This page will provide a summary of known issues marked "upstream" (i.e. we cannot workaround/fix them in VS Code sources)

Smooth scrolling on Windows using laptops with Precision Touchpad

Scrolling with two fingers on the touchpad feels "janky". The root cause lies within Electron/Chromium and the way they convert touchpad gestures to mousewheel events.

*** Confirmed workaround reported by @alexpaluzzi

During my testing, I discovered that the lag occurs if you start VS Code maximized. I thought maybe I was going crazy, but all I did was restore the window and then re-maximize it and all of the scroll jank was gone.

Unconfirmed workarounds:

reported by davidstoneham

Staring vscode with the flag "--disable-gpu" fixes the issue for me

reported by alexey-kozlenkov

If I run VSCode as an administrator, then scrolling does not work. If I run VSCode just as it is, scrolling does work.

reported by rcdmk

I have another trick that does work as long as I keep focus on the VS code window:

  1. Tap with tree fingers, so Search/Cortana pannel shows up to the left of screen.
  2. Swipe with two fingers over the VS code window and notice that the document does scroll