From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2024 09:14:26 +0000 (+0300)
Subject: ; * etc/PROBLEMS: Entry about slow mouse-wheel with GTK3 (bug#70002).
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; * etc/PROBLEMS: Entry about slow mouse-wheel with GTK3 (bug#70002).

(cherry picked from commit 3d87d74a23d13e853f202cc589eb750c40f9e2be)
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diff --git a/etc/PROBLEMS b/etc/PROBLEMS
index c725f7aeaa4..aee895ce920 100644
--- a/etc/PROBLEMS
+++ b/etc/PROBLEMS
@@ -2089,6 +2089,16 @@ For such programs to function again, Emacs must be run on an X server
 where the input extension is disabled, or alternatively be configured
 with the "--without-xinput2" option.
 
+*** Scrolling with mouse-wheel lags in GTK3 builds.
+
+We don't know why this happens, but one workaround is to build Emacs
+with a different toolkit.  For example:
+
+  ./configure --without-toolkit-scroll-bars --with-x-toolkit=athena
+
+This produces a build which uses Athena toolkit, and disables toolkit
+scroll bars which could sometimes be slow.
+
 * Runtime problems on character terminals
 
 ** The meta key does not work on xterm.