Description of problem:
Scrolling via my laptop's mousepad no longer works after installing Fedora 19. I've run every previous version of Fedora on the laptop for years with no mousepad problems. But with 19, trying to scroll with the mousepad has no effect at all. As a test, I plugged in a physical mouse via the USB port and the scroll wheel on the mouse worked normally, so the problem seems to only affect the built-in mousepad on the laptop itself.
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Fedora 19
How reproducible:
always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Fedora 19 on laptop
2. mousepad scrolling stops working
3.
Actual results:
Cannot scroll using mousepad
Expected results:
Mousepad scrolling should work normally as on previous version of Fedora (e.g. 18, 17, 16, 15, 14, etc)
Additional info:
Laptop is a Dell Studio 15 (1558)
I'm happy to provide additional information if needed
gnome-shell doesn't modify input devices in any way, so the issue must be lower in the stack. The first possible candidate is gnome-settings-daemon's mouse plugin, so reassigning there.
Update: found out what the problem is. For some reason Fedora 19 defaults to having touchpad edge scrolling turned off by default. So the bug is not that the touchpad doesn't work but that it got released with a weird/wrong default setting.