Wallpaper Engine causing "Smooth Scrolling" to activate in Chrome

[fbe]

Hi, I don't know where else to ask this, so I figured I might as well try here. I just got Wallpaper Engine, and as it turns out, it is enabling Smooth scrolling on Chrome for no reason. I tried restoring the computer to right before I installed Wallpaper Engine and everything was back to normal, but as soon as I run Wallpaper Engine again, the smooth scrolling option is enabled once again.
If you can't tell, I dislike smooth scrolling with a passion. I know you can disable it by going to chrome://flags/ and deactivating it there, but the problem is that it will then automatically activate again with every major chrome update, and I'd rather avoid that hassle.

So I was wondering whether you guys know what's causing Wallpaper engine to activate this option and if there is any way that I can avoid it? If there isn't I'm afraid I'll just have to get a refund.
Do you think it's one of the wallpapers causing it, and maybe I would be able to disable it by simply removing that particular wallpaper? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

[Biohazard]

Wallpaper Engine uses Chromium for the UI, if it has a command line argument you can apply it to WE by adding it to the Steam start parameters.

Obviously it shouldn't be affecting each other, but if that's the reason then Google must have implemented it badly so that different programs with Chromium affect each other...

(I can't reproduce it though, I disabled it in Chrome and restarted both apps and it was still off?)

Edit: You aren't using the flags, you are probably using the 'disable animations inside windows' option in Windows, I guess? Windows treats the wallpaper as an animation inside a window too and won't allow this program to work otherwise, so if you mean that then I'm afraid it can't be helped.

You could add --disable-smooth-scrolling to your Chrome desktop shotcut though.

[fbe]

Ah I see. Smooth Scrolling is still off if I restart now, so yes, reproducing it right now wont work. The problem is that I will (according to people on reddit) have to go to chrome://flags/ every major chrome update to disable it again if I want to keep using WE. However if I didn't use WE I would not have to deal with that hassle. At least now I know the cause.

[Biohazard]

If you are using the Chrome flags to turn this off (and not my blind guess about that Windows setting), it should be unrelated to whether WE is running or not. I'm just using the stock CEF framework which is also used by Steam, Spotify, Discord, Geforce Experience - I think they would all suffer from the same issue then.

[fbe]

Smooth scrolling is activated regardless of whether WE is currently running or not. As long as I have launched it previously it will enable smooth scrolling and it will stay enabled until I specifically turn it off in chrome://flags/.
Regarding "disable animations inside windows", I *think* I recall using it, but I don't remember where I find that option (nor where I should put --disable-smooth-scrolling to my chrome shortcut). I'm not very good with computers. :)

Oh and yes, I just noticed, Spotify is scrolling smoothly now as well. Not sure where/how I fix that though.

[Biohazard]

It sounds like you used 'disable animations inside windows' then instead of turning the option off directly. But like I said, this is a common setting that affects a number of things in Windows and Windows temporarily changes it because of the live wallpaper.

You can also turn off smooth scrolling per parameter like this: https://www.digitalcitizen.life/pin-shortcuts-parameters-taskbar-or-start-menu if you add --disable-smooth-scrolling there.

[fbe]

Alright, following that guide only fixes the issue in chrome I assume, so Spotify and the various other programs that are sharing the issue can't be solved as you can't disable windows animations with when using WE. So I suppose there's nothing I can do to make it so those programs not use smooth scrolling? That's a shame, but I suppose I can deal with it as long as Chrome isn't affected.

[Biohazard]

Spotify is basically Chrome - the same trick will work there.

[fbe]

Oh, neat, it totally does. Thanks a lot for your help!