Bug: cursor in text area, horizontal scroll changes tabs.

When operating normally, if I accidentally move a little left-right on the lower edge of my touchpad when trying to open a link, for example, it switches to a different tab. Open several tabs, create some content with 'ls' or view a 'bookmarks.html' file, for example, and try horizontal scroll. I'm using a fully updated Arch Linux on a Lenovo AMD laptop with a touchpad that identifies, using 'lshw', as 'SYNA2BA6:00 06CB:CE2D Touchpad'.

I'd like tab selection to be, by a preference selection, only by clicking in the tab header/button itself (shortcuts, too, I guess), and once selected, to leave the cursor in the tab header and have any scrolling affect just the tab text contents.

changed title from Enhancement Request: Make tab switching by scrolling selectable in Preferences. to Bug: cursor in text area, horizontal scroll changes tabs.

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marked this issue as related to #232

marked this issue as related to #235

I've been having this issue for some months as well.

Some searching suggests it could be related to input methods, cf. here and maybe here.

I'm using xim with some custom keyboard layouts and do not currently want to use ibus.

I'm actually using libinput, and my workaround is to disable horizontal scrolling on the touchpad with a startup script running 'xinput set-prop 14 280 0' as well as setting a couple of other parameters. I'd currently rather have no horizontal scrolling than wind up typing the wrong command into one of my half-dozen terminal sessions.

Oh, actually my issue is related to vertical scrolling. Sorry about that... I always disable horizontal scrolling system-wide.

For me, this only happens when enable kinetic scrolling is on. Then, even 1px of horizontal scroll flips tabs.