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OpnSrcFan
Asked: 2019-04-01 07:50:30 +0800 CST

How to disable horizontal scrolling in Ubuntu 18.04 in terminal?

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I am having a hard time finding an answer to this question for 18.04 LTS.

I used the following to find a list of options to configure.

gsettings list-keys org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad

It returned the following list:

touchpad send-events natural-scroll tap-to-click two-finger-scrolling-enabled left-handed click-method speed scroll-method tap-and-drag edge-scrolling-enabled disable-while-typing

Out of this list, which of these options can be configured to be "false" to disable horizontal scrolling? Samuel Cavazos' answer seems close to what needs to be done, but the horizontal option does not appear to be available in the current list above. His answer, which is not applicable in 18.04, is as follows:

gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.touchpad horiz-scroll-enabled "true"

Was this option renamed to scroll-method? If so, what should the terminal line be to disable horizontal scrolling?

mouse touchpad mouse-scroll scrolling

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    I found the answer to my own question, and so wanted to share what worked for me in case others are stuck. Pilot6's answer to the same question asked for 16.04 works with a little modification for 18.04. The following steps solve the issue:

    1. Install "libinput-tools" (this package name is slightly different from 16.04) and dependencies in terminal by running the following commands:

    sudo apt update

    sudo apt install libinput-tools

    1. Then enter the following line in terminal

    sudo gedit /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/40-libinput.conf

    1. The file will open in text editor. In the touchpad section, just before the line indicating the end of the section, add the following line:

    Option "HorizontalScrolling" "False"

    1. Save and close the configuration file and restart. Horizontal scrolling should be disabled.
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  2. OpnSrcFans Solution worked for me, however only under the circumstance that I used the Ubuntu Desktop without Wayland and that I explicitely changed the Driver Option in the 40-libinput.conf file from libinput to synaptics

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