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jeremy_rutman
Asked: 2024-11-16 14:10:48 +0800 CST

Trackpad settings seem not to affect anything in 24.04

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The GUI trackpad settings for my Lenovo 16IAX7 running ubuntu 24.04 6.8.0-48-generic don't seem to affect the scrolling behavior. (Neither do the mouse settings). I am using the Gnome DE and Mutter WM. I've gone through the post here but this doesn't seem to be entirely relevant to my case as (for instance) I don't see a natural scroll option. How would I get the GUI to work, or get natural scrolling running some other way?

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    xinput --list gives a list of input devices of which #14 is my trackpad. So xinput --list-props 14 gives the list of properties one of which is the "Synaptics Scrolling Distance" (no Natural Scrolling appears).

    Synaptics Scrolling Distance (358): -86, -86

    By setting the scrolling distance to negative instead of positive values I get natural scrolling:

    xinput --set-prop "14" "Synaptics Scrolling Distance" -86 -86.

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