Tip: fix the slow mouse wheel scroll in the apps menu (Omarchy 4)

[ShiMMyTo]

Omarchy 4 · tested on 4.0.1-1 (Arch Linux)

Problem

The mouse wheel scroll inside the Omarchy apps menu is very slow, while it is normal in every other application. (The emoji picker list behaves the same way.)

Root cause

The menu is built with Qt Quick (ListView, which inherits Flickable). By default the mouse wheel on a Qt Quick ListView moves a small fixed amount per wheel tick, with no external way to configure it. On a long apps list the slow step becomes obvious.

Fix

Add a transparent MouseArea on top of the ListView (after it in the stacking order) that captures the wheel first and scrolls manually at a configurable speed.

The key trick: the MouseArea must go after the ListView in the stacking order, with acceptedButtons: Qt.NoButton (clicks still reach the rows). Placed before the ListView, the list steals the wheel event and the handler never fires.

MouseArea {
  anchors.fill: parent
  acceptedButtons: Qt.NoButton
  onWheel: function(wheel) {
    if (wheel.angleDelta.y === 0) return
    if (resultList.contentHeight <= resultList.height) return
    var factor = 1
    var step = resultList.height / 8
    resultList.contentY = Math.max(0, Math.min(
      resultList.contentY - wheel.angleDelta.y / 120.0 * step * factor,
      resultList.contentHeight - resultList.height))
    wheel.accepted = true
  }
}

Reload note: QML changes are not applied live on this plugin (keepLoaded). Use omarchy restart shell — do not use omarchy refresh shell (it regenerates shell.json with defaults and replaces your custom config).

Full plugin + README

https://github.com/ShiMMyTo/omarchy-menu-scroll-fix