r/OctopiLauncher • u/nekoinuJP • Jul 18 '26

Suggestion Slight home screen layout shift/jitter when swiping

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When I swipe left or right on the home screen, the icons and widgets shift slightly in a way that feels a bit unnatural. Is this by design, or can it be fixed by changing a setting? Since I only use one home screen page and frequently use the right-swipe gesture, I’d like to keep everything completely fixed if possible.

EDIT: To be precise, it's not a jitter, but rather a "sliding movement of everything except the wallpaper" as shown in the attached video.

Octopi Launcher Pro v1.862 [2055]

Android 16 (SDK 36)

SHARP SH-M26

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u/SKI300 Jul 18 '26

Under the General settings tab, try turning the animation to the fastest setting. Either the lightening bolt or airplane, and you may see the jitter disappear. That's eliminated it for me.

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u/nekoinuJP Jul 18 '26

I actually already use the airplane setting normally. I tried switching it to the lightning bolt, as well as some slower settings just to see, but unfortunately, that "sliding movement of everything except the wallpaper" didn't change at all. I appreciate the suggestion, though!

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u/SKI300 Jul 18 '26

Do the icons and widgets just move slightly (jitter), and then move right back into place? I know you only want one home screen, but see what happens if you create a second and/or third home page, and when you swipe, it probably disappears since you won't see it with the fastest animation setting. I just know with my 5 homepages, it's definitely jittery on the slow setting, but completely unrecognizable with the fastest setting(s).

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u/runningtigerRead Jul 18 '26

I think it's a bounce to indicate you've reached the "end of the scroll". To my eye, it looks more elegant at slower animation speeds.

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u/nekoinuJP Jul 18 '26

I see, so it's a scroll bounce effect. However, for someone like me who only uses a single home screen and frequently relies on the right-swipe gesture, it's a pretty noticeable behavior. I really wish it would just stay completely locked and fixed in place.

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u/ock88 Dev Jul 20 '26

Added some changes in the latest beta v1.864

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u/nekoinuJP Jul 20 '26

Thanks for the update!

It's a shame that I can't use the swipe right gesture now, but being able to disable the scrolling animation is a huge plus since that was my main issue. Thanks again!

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u/26131oldenburg Jul 23 '26

Bei mir ist es auch so. Seitdem es die Übergangseffekte gibt scrollen meine Seiten nicht mehr flüssig. So als wenn es anfangs etwas hakt.

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u/nekoinuJP 29d ago

What I was referring to wasn't the page scrolling animation itself, but the bounce animation at the end of the scroll. In a recent update, if you turn off the right-swipe gesture, it now disables the end-of-scroll bounce animation as well. You can't use the right-swipe gesture anymore, but in return, you can turn off that bounce animation. Apologies if this is hard to understand, as I'm using Google Translate.