Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 1467328
Natural Scrolling cannot be disabled in RHEL 7.4
Last modified: 2017-07-07 08:31:52 EDT
Description of problem: Natural scrolling cannot be disabled in RHEL 7.4. If disabled, it can be turned on, but it cannot be turned off again, at least via the Gnome Control Panel or gsettings. Workaround: it can be turned off with xinput. ### natural scrolling is disabled $ xinput list-props 'SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad' | grep Natural.Scroll libinput Natural Scrolling Enabled (285): 0 libinput Natural Scrolling Enabled Default (286): 0 ### enable natural scrolling $ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.mouse natural-scroll true ### verify natural scrolling is enabled $ xinput list-props 'SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad' | grep Natural.Scroll libinput Natural Scrolling Enabled (285): 1 libinput Natural Scrolling Enabled Default (286): 0 ### disable natural scrolling $ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.mouse natural-scroll false ### it's still enabled!!! $ xinput list-props 'SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad' | grep Natural.Scroll libinput Natural Scrolling Enabled (285): 1 libinput Natural Scrolling Enabled Default (286): 0 ### disable natural scrolling with xinput $ xinput set-prop 'SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad' 'libinput Natural Scrolling Enabled' 0 ### natural scrolling is actually disabled $ xinput list-props 'SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad' | grep Natural.Scroll libinput Natural Scrolling Enabled (285): 0 libinput Natural Scrolling Enabled Default (286): 0 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gnome-shell-3.22.3-17.el7.x86_64 xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.19.3-11.el7.x86_64 libinput-1.6.3-2.el7.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-libinput-0.25.0-2.el7.x86_64 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Toggle Natural scrolling 2. try and scroll Actual results: natural scrolling is always enabled Expected results: natural scrolling can be toggled on and off Additional info: See also Fedora bug 1349600
This is on a Lenovo T460s with both the pad and track-point. $ xinput ⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)] ⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)] ⎜ ↳ SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad id=12 [slave pointer (2)] ⎜ ↳ TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint id=13 [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)] ↳ Sleep Button id=8 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Yubico Yubico Yubikey II id=9 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Integrated Camera id=10 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=11 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ ThinkPad Extra Buttons id=14 [slave keyboard (3)]
It appears the problem is Gnome / gsettings is only enables natural scrolling on all pointer devices, but it only disables it on the TrackPoint: $ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.mouse natural-scroll true $ xinput list-props 'SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad' | grep Natural.Scroll libinput Natural Scrolling Enabled (285): 1 libinput Natural Scrolling Enabled Default (286): 0 $ xinput list-props 'TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint' | grep Natural.Scroll libinput Natural Scrolling Enabled (285): 1 libinput Natural Scrolling Enabled Default (286): 0 $ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.mouse natural-scroll false $ xinput list-props 'SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad' | grep Natural.Scroll libinput Natural Scrolling Enabled (285): 1 libinput Natural Scrolling Enabled Default (286): 0 $ xinput list-props 'TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint' | grep Natural.Scroll libinput Natural Scrolling Enabled (285): 0 libinput Natural Scrolling Enabled Default (286): 0
(In reply to Jeff Bastian from comment #2) > It appears the problem is Gnome / gsettings is only enables natural scrolling > on all pointer devices Oops, I forgot to remove "is only" from that sentence
(In reply to Jeff Bastian from comment #2) > It appears the problem is Gnome / gsettings enables natural > scrolling on all pointer devices, but it only disables it on the TrackPoint Mmh, the last one is expected, the former is not - the natural-scroll setting in peripherals.mouse should only affect non-touchpad devices. Touchpad have a separate setting, both in the UI (scroll down a bit) and in GSettings (peripherals.touchpad).
(In reply to Florian Müllner from comment #4) > (scroll down a bit) D'oh! Now I see it: there's a separate natural-scrolling-toggle for the touchpad. The problem - for me anyway - is that the scroll bar disappears so I didn't know there was more content! And gsettings works when I use the correct property: $ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad natural-scroll false $ xinput list-props 'SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad' | grep Natural.Scroll | grep -v Default libinput Natural Scrolling Enabled (280): 0 $ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad natural-scroll true $ xinput list-props 'SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad' | grep Natural.Scroll | grep -v Default libinput Natural Scrolling Enabled (280): 1 Thanks Florain! Closing as a not-a-bug. I'll let the UI experts argue the merits and aesthetics of disappearing scroll bars.