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psiphi75
Asked: 2016-10-28 14:00:39 +0800 CST

Ubuntu GNOME 16.10 - unable to enable vertical scroll using side of touchpad

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I upgraded to Ubuntu GNOME 16.10 from 16.04. I have an HP Laptop with a touchpad. Previously you could scroll using the right hand edge of the touchpad, but no longer. I can only use two-finger scroll, and I don't like it, it also tends to not work that well.

I tried similar instructions to this answer and this one too, but the "touchpad" option is missing in dconf-editor under the following tree:

org > gnome > settings-daemon > peripherals > touchpad

I have installed gnome-tweak-tool for Gnome 3.20 (using these instructions), but it has no options available either.

Any ideas how to get scrolling using the edge of the touchpad?

UPDATE 1:

I looked under 

org > gnome > desktop > peripherals > touchpad

and the settings were available. But the scrolling parameter was already set to edge-scrolling (see image below), but it does not seem to work.

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UPDATE 2: I created a new user. Because they would have fresh settings and would show that my settings may be slightly corrupt. But the new user has the same issue.

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2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Libinput on X11 workaround. This was taken directly from ask.fedoraproject.org. This is what made it work for my Ubuntu GNOME.

    There is a workaround for libinpunt on X11:

    1) Determine ID of your touchpad, for me it was the SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad with id of 11:

    xinput list

    2) Create desktop file in ~/.local/share/applications named edge-scroll-workaround.desktop. This creates the edge-scroll-workaround application.

    vim ~/.local/share/applications/edge-scroll-workaround.desktop

    3) Place here this code in the edge-scroll-workaround.desktop file:

    [Desktop Entry]
Name=Edge scroll workaround
Exec=/usr/bin/xinput set-prop **ID OF TOUCHPAD** "libinput Scroll Method Enabled" 0, 1, 0
Type=Application

    4) In Tweak Tool (available in gnome-tweak-tool package) go to Startup Applications, click on + and in list find Edge scroll workaround.

    5) Run edge-scroll-workaround.desktop, I do this by clicking the Super key and typing edge- and the application should appear. Logout/login or restart and that's it.

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  2. Go to settings and go to this section:

    Org > Gnome > Desktop > Peripherals > Touchpad

    Once you are there, change natural-scroll to false.

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