Bug 1349600 - Natural Scrolling not working after upgrade to Fedora 24
Summary: Natural Scrolling not working after upgrade to Fedora 24
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gnome-shell
Version: 24
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Owen Taylor
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-06-23 18:51 UTC by Stuart Campbell
Modified: 2017-08-08 15:00 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2017-08-08 15:00:35 UTC
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Red Hat Bugzilla 1467328 0 medium CLOSED Natural Scrolling cannot be disabled in RHEL 7.4 2021-02-22 00:41:40 UTC

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Description Stuart Campbell 2016-06-23 18:51:02 UTC
Description of problem:

Natural scrolling no longer works after upgrading from F23 to F24

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:

All the time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Toggle Natural scrolling
2. try and scroll

Actual results:
normal scrolling

Expected results:
natural scrolling

Additional info:
I did the upgrade using 'dnf system-upgrade ...'

Comment 1 Ben Liblit 2016-06-29 00:46:11 UTC
I'm seeing the same thing here on a Lenovo ThinkPad X1.  This laptop has both a TrackPoint (joystick-style mouse control) as well as a touchpad.  Under Fedora 23, enabling natural scrolling had the expected effect on the touchpad's scrolling behavior.  Under Fedora 24, the natural scrolling setting has no effect: the touchpad does not exhibit natural scrolling, regardless of the setting.

I'm happy and able to provide additional hardware details, output from diagnostic commands, etc. as needed.  Just let me know what you need.

Comment 2 Juan Antonio Martinez 2016-07-14 07:25:31 UTC
I also can confirm this.

A way to circumvect is detailed at:

http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showpost.php?p=1734296&postcount=25

In sort: use xinput to manually set up libinput Natural scrolling behaviour:

[jantonio@jonsy xorg.conf.d]$ xinput list
⎡ Virtual core pointer                    	id=2	[master pointer  (3)]
⎜   ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer              	id=4	[slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ ImPS/2 BYD TouchPad                     	id=12	[slave  pointer  (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard                   	id=3	[master keyboard (2)]
    ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard             	id=5	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Power Button                            	id=6	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Video Bus                               	id=7	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Video Bus                               	id=8	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Power Button                            	id=9	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ pac207                                  	id=10	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard            	id=11	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ HP WMI hotkeys                          	id=13	[slave  keyboard (3)]

( in my case mouse has id=12 )

[jantonio@jonsy xorg.conf.d]$ xinput list-props 12
Device 'ImPS/2 BYD TouchPad':
	Device Enabled (142):	1
	Coordinate Transformation Matrix (144):	1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 1.000000
	libinput Accel Speed (279):	0.000000
	libinput Accel Speed Default (280):	0.000000
	libinput Accel Profiles Available (281):	1, 1
	libinput Accel Profile Enabled (282):	1, 0
	libinput Accel Profile Enabled Default (283):	1, 0
	libinput Natural Scrolling Enabled (284):	1
	libinput Natural Scrolling Enabled Default (285):	0
	libinput Send Events Modes Available (263):	1, 0
	libinput Send Events Mode Enabled (264):	0, 0
	libinput Send Events Mode Enabled Default (265):	0, 0
	libinput Left Handed Enabled (286):	0
	libinput Left Handed Enabled Default (287):	0
	libinput Scroll Methods Available (288):	0, 0, 1
	libinput Scroll Method Enabled (289):	0, 0, 0
	libinput Scroll Method Enabled Default (290):	0, 0, 0
	libinput Button Scrolling Button (291):	2
	libinput Button Scrolling Button Default (292):	274
	libinput Middle Emulation Enabled (293):	0
	libinput Middle Emulation Enabled Default (294):	0
	Device Node (266):	"/dev/input/event5"
	Device Product ID (267):	2, 5
	libinput Drag Lock Buttons (295):	<no items>
	libinput Horizonal Scroll Enabled (268):	1

( Locate entry for "libinput Natural Scrolling Enabled". in my case is 284 )

[jantonio@jonsy xorg.conf.d]$ xinput set-prop 12 284 0

( To set Natural scrolling to desired value )

Unfortunately, these values are not constants and changes on each reboot/new device connected, so need to add an extra script to find and set up device properly

Comment 3 Ben Liblit 2016-07-15 23:32:52 UTC
(In reply to Juan Antonio Martinez from comment #2)
> Unfortunately, these values are not constants and changes on each reboot/new
> device connected, so need to add an extra script to find and set up device
> properly

xinput can use device and property names instead of numbers.  So you should be able to use:

% xinput set-prop 'ImPS/2 BYD TouchPad' 'libinput Natural Scrolling Enabled' 0

On my box the relevant device is 'SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad'.  Unfortunately it has no 'libinput Natural Scrolling Enabled' property, or any other property that mentions 'natural' at all.  :-(

Comment 4 Ben Liblit 2016-07-16 21:16:07 UTC
Installing "xorg-x11-drv-libinput" fixed this problem for me, with no extra "xinput" commands needed.  Apparently I was using the synaptics driver before, from "xorg-x11-drv-synaptics".  With "xorg-x11-drv-libinput" installed, X uses the libinput driver instead.  Natural scrolling now works perfectly.  I now also have working tap-to-click again.  (Tap-to-click stopped working for me after upgrade to Fedora 24, but I hadn't gotten around to reporting it yet.)

Comment 5 Juan Antonio Martinez 2016-07-18 06:59:02 UTC
I've installed xorg-x11-drv-libinput with no success.

I've found this related bugs: apparently is a "feature" when latest kernel is in use: Instead of an 'ImPS/2 Logitech Wheel Mouse', an 'ImPS/2 BYD TouchPad' is found by the kernel as pointer device

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1352159
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=120781

Also, seems that wayland does not (yet) honours "Natural Scrolling"

Anyway, until solved, xinput workaround is enought for me

Comment 6 Alex Villacís Lasso 2016-07-21 17:03:53 UTC
I am having the same problem, but on only one of my machines (huh?). The affected machine reports this on xinput:

[alex@avillacis ~]$ xinput list
⎡ Virtual core pointer                    	id=2	[master pointer  (3)]
⎜   ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer              	id=4	[slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ ImPS/2 BYD TouchPad                     	id=9	[slave  pointer  (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard                   	id=3	[master keyboard (2)]
    ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard             	id=5	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Power Button                            	id=7	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Power Button                            	id=6	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard            	id=8	[slave  keyboard (3)]

My pointer device is actually a Genius PS/2 mouse, not a touchpad.

I have installed Openbox on the affected machine, an I have realized that inside a Openbox session, the mouse wheel actually behaves the way I want (roll with finger toward me for scrolldown, away from me for scrollup). It is only on gnome-shell that the setting gets reversed and has to be worked around with xinput.

Comment 7 David Nadle 2016-07-25 18:35:40 UTC
Can confirm this issue and that the xinput fix works. On my system, the command: 

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.mouse natural-scroll true

will set 'libinput Natural Scrolling Enabled' to 1 from 0, but:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.mouse natural-scroll false

will not set it back to 0 from 1.

Comment 8 Alex Villacís Lasso 2016-09-14 13:48:04 UTC
To summarize:

This is actually several bugs:
1) kernel bug - at least some mice (in my case a PS/2 Genius) are incorrectly reported as touchpads.
2) gnome-shell bug - gsettings org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.mouse can only toggle in one way when Xorg is using libinput (NOT evdev). Not both ways. Otherwise, 1) could be worked around by setting the "reversed" setting as the default.

Apparently this only affects gnome-shell with Xorg and xorg-x11-drv-libinput installed. My previously normal system had only xorg-x11-drv-evdev. I could reproduce the bug by installing xorg-x11-drv-libinput, then uninstalling xorg-x11-drv-evdev, and rebooting.

I figure using xorg-x11-drv-evdev and uninstalling xorg-x11-drv-libinput would hide the bug.

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