Hello, folks.
I'm having problems with edge scrolling on Fedora 24. I cannot seem to find a way to enable it. Tap-to-ckick and two-finger scrolling works just fine. It is a fresh install running Gnome.
Can anyone help me?
Best regards, Esteban
After some research, whole situation is quite clear for me:
So, if you want to use edge scrolling, you have those two options:
I am very angry about that, it's just rubbish. And it's even worse, because under Wayland you CANT'T workaround this (and not only this, locked drags for example too). Because of that, I filled bugs both in Redhat bugzilla and upstream bugzilla. Please support resolving this bug there!
Links to bugzilla:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug....
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.c...
Sources:
https://github.com/GNOME/gnome-contro...
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.c...
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.c...
https://github.com/GNOME/gnome-settin...
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.c...
There is a workaround for libinpunt on X11:
Determine ID of your touchpad:
xinput list
Create desktop file in ~/.local/share/applications named edge-scroll-workaround.deskop
vim ~/.local/share/applications/edge-scroll-workaround.desktop
Place here this code:
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Edge scroll workaround
Exec=/usr/bin/xinput set-prop **ID OF TOUCHPAD** "libinput Scroll Method Enabled" 0, 1, 0
Type=Application
In Tweak Tool (available in gnome-tweak-tool package) go to Startup Applications, click on + and in list find Edge scroll workaround.
Logout/login or restart and that's it.
Thank you for your research. As you say, is quite clear. As for my workaround, not only synaptics is being deprecated, but it won't work on wayland. So we need a better way to do this.
You should be able to tell g-s-d to not touch deal with your mouse by making it inactive through: dconf write /org/gnome/settings-daemon/plugins/mouse/active false
At that point, the tips mentioned here should work: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/... but with edge scrolling substituted.
Disabling g-s-d for mouse does not work for me, settings from Xorg config is still overwritten. Fiddling with xinitrc is maybe possible way, but creating separate .desktop file and making it run on login looks clearer for me, because in future it will not break anything and it will be quite clear how to decommission it.
Any more news in this? I upgraded to Gnome 3.20 and having the same problem... Running a xinput bash at the moment :(
This is what worked for me.
I created "touchpad.conf" on /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/
sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/touchpad.conf
And I put this inside:
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "touchpad catchall"
Driver "synaptics"
MatchIsTouchpad "on"
####################################
## The lines that you need to add ##
# Enable left mouse button by tapping
Option "TapButton1" "1"
# Enable vertical scrolling
Option "VertEdgeScroll" "1"
# Enable right mouse button by tapping lower right corner
Option "RBCornerButton" "3"
# Enable scroll middle button by tapping upper right corner
Option "RTCornerButton" "2"
# Velocity
Option "MinSpeed" "1"
Option "MaxSpeed" "1"
####################################
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
EndSection
You should test how much velocity works for you. I like it fast. Also, you could check what other options you might want to set. I found this article very helpful.
I hope it helps.
Best regards, Esteban
I know is deprecated, but for some reason ibinput doesen't work In my laptop. I'll send my feedback to the team developing libinput.
how to reduce the speed? what values should i put if i need only 75% of what u set?
Run synclient VertEdgeScroll=1 HorizEdgeScroll=1 VertTwoFingerScroll=0 HorizTwoFingerScroll=0 in a terminal.
You could put that in a script that runs at desktop startup. Or you could possibly add the options to the first section in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf. I don't want to restart my X server right now to test it.
@whot I recently upgraded to F24 and edge scrolling stopped working, but there are no configurations in Control Center. Now, after reading your comment, I installed xorg-x11-drv-libinput and some configurations appear in Control Center, but edge scrolling still doesn't work, only 2 finger scroll. Do you know how to configure edge scrolling? Thanks!!
If you're using gnome there is a toggle in the config panel to enable it. That toggle flips the gsettings which should then apply to the driver. Without the UI you can achieve the same using this command
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad edge-scrolling-enabled true
This is the recommended method, though for other desktop environments you'll have to figure out their way of doing so.
So that's where that setting went. It used to be under settings-daemon which is what you will find all over with a Google search.
And that is still the wrong setting, that one doesn't exist.
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad scroll-method "edge-scrolling" is the correct command. I just tested it.
Thank you for your replies. I looked on Dconf editor and found that edge-scrolling-enabled is set to "true". However, it doesn't seems to work.
I tried the one you suggested, Samuel. And did not worked. It's strange indeed, being a fresh install.
Yesterday I upgraded to Fedora 24 and my edge scrolling stopped working. So I installed libinput:
$ dnf install xorg-x11-drv-libinput
and then I enabled edge scrolling with the following commands. First identify the id of your touchpad:
$ xinput list
...
⎜ ↳ SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad id=12 [slave pointer (2)]
...
Then list its properties:
$ xinput list-props 12
...
libinput Scroll Method Enabled (287): 1, 0, 0
...
And finally enable edge scrolling (this was kinda trial and error):
$ xinput set-prop 12 "libinput Scroll Method Enabled" 0, 1, 0
HTH.
And is there similar solution for Wayland? Situations looks like that guys from Red Hat simply decided, that infrastructure around libinput is perfect enough. But it isn't. I filled a bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug....
I tried to make it permanent, so I created /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/90-libinput.conf with
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "libinput touchpad catchall"
MatchIsTouchpad "on"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
Driver "libinput"
Option "ScrollMethod" "edge"
EndSection
But it does not work. Any advices what I am doing wrong?
@Samuel Sieb that command doesn't work in F24, you are using the wrong key.
Asked: 2016-06-22 18:13:30 -0500
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gracias por tu ayuda ahora sí ya puedo usar el scroll del touchpad en mi fedora 24
file:///home/jsd16/Im%C3%A1genes/Captura%20de%20pantalla%20de%202016-07-16%2010-02-08.png hello again when i did your solution in the section touchpad desapear but all work, i just test all the solution here showed and the only one it works is yours. well
sorry but how can I get it a litlle slower the velocity of touchpad. thank you