Bug 874591 - In Mouse & Touchpad unter System settings "Content sticks to fingers" doesn't work
Summary: In Mouse & Touchpad unter System settings "Content sticks to fingers" doesn't...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gnome-settings-daemon
Version: 18
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Bastien Nocera
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-11-08 14:00 UTC by dinyar.rabady+spam
Modified: 2014-09-13 19:00 UTC (History)
16 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2014-02-05 12:55:08 UTC
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Description dinyar.rabady+spam 2012-11-08 14:00:53 UTC
Description of problem:
Can't get  "Content sticks to fingers" to work.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
3.6

How reproducible:
Always.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Activate "Content sticks to fingers" in "Mouse & Touchpad" unter "System settings"
2. Try to move around windows with the touchpad.
  
Actual results:
Holding and moving doesn't make the underlying window move.

Expected results:
Holding and moving should make the window stick to the mouse pointer.

Additional info:
I may be just doing it wrong.. 
Using a Thinkpad X1 Carbon for testing.

Comment 1 Allan Day 2012-11-08 15:32:48 UTC
Testing Fedora 18 Beta TC7 as a live system user:

 * Checking and unchecking "Content sticks to fingers" does not have any effect on scrolling behaviour, either in the Mouse & Touchpad test area, or in the Files application

 * However, quitting and restarting the Files application does apply the desired behaviour.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Check "Two finger scroll" and "Content sticks to fingers"
2. Switch to Files
3. Place the pointer over a scrollable area
4. Drag two fingers down the trackpad - the content scrolls down (it should go up)
5. Quit and restart Files
6. Dragging two fingers down the trackpad scrolls the content up

Comment 2 Ondrej Holy 2012-11-09 09:34:20 UTC
(In reply to comment #0)
> Expected results:
> Holding and moving should make the window stick to the mouse pointer.

It is misunderstanding of "Content sticks to fingers". "Content sticks to fingers" is natural scrolling (inverse to normal scrolling).

You need to check "Tap to click" option, to move window using touchpad only.

(In reply to comment #1)
> Testing Fedora 18 Beta TC7 as a live system user:
> 
>  * Checking and unchecking "Content sticks to fingers" does not have any
> effect on scrolling behaviour, either in the Mouse & Touchpad test area, or
> in the Files application
> 
>  * However, quitting and restarting the Files application does apply the
> desired behaviour.

I have just noticed that "Content sticks to fingers" doesn't work immediately for gnome applications (e.g. Files, Gedit, Control Center...), for others it works immediately.

Comment 3 Martin 2012-11-12 13:58:34 UTC
(In reply to comment #2)
> I have just noticed that "Content sticks to fingers" doesn't work
> immediately for gnome applications (e.g. Files, Gedit, Control Center...),
> for others it works immediately.

More info: Works immediately for Gnome Documents and Firefox, not for Epiphany.

Comment 4 Paul Martin 2013-06-12 17:16:18 UTC
At the time of this post(2013-06-12), "inverse"/"Natural" scrolling works in Fedora 18 (on HP dv6t with synaptics touchpad), but fails in fedora 19 Beta. The checkbox "content sticks to fingers" simply has no effect. The configuration is two finger scrolling without mouse taps enabled.

Comment 5 Florian Müllner 2013-06-13 21:08:45 UTC
In any case, gnome-shell doesn't have anything to do with this - the setting is handled by gnome-settings-daemon's mouse plugin.

Comment 6 Ondrej Holy 2013-06-18 08:38:31 UTC
(In reply to Paul Martin from comment #4)
> At the time of this post(2013-06-12), "inverse"/"Natural" scrolling works in
> Fedora 18 (on HP dv6t with synaptics touchpad), but fails in fedora 19 Beta.
> The checkbox "content sticks to fingers" simply has no effect. The
> configuration is two finger scrolling without mouse taps enabled.

I haven't installed Fedora 19 yet and g-c-c/g-s-d master on Fedora 18 works for me well, so please find your touchpad id: 
xinput --list

...and check whether "Synaptics Scrolling Distance" property is changing its polarity while changing value "Content sticks to fingers" checkbox:
xinput list-props YOURTOUCHPADID | grep "Synaptics Scrolling Distance"

Comment 7 Ondrej Holy 2013-06-25 11:19:37 UTC
Natural scrolling works for me on Fedora 19.

You can also check whether value is changing in dconf:
dconf read /org/gnome/settings-daemon/peripherals/touchpad/natural-scroll

Comment 8 Paul Martin 2013-07-15 15:54:26 UTC
xinput --list returns:

⎡ Virtual core pointer                    	id=2	[master pointer  (3)]
⎜   ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer              	id=4	[slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ Primax HP Wireless Eco-Comfort Mobile Mouse	id=9	[slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ SynPS/2 Synaptics 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)]
    ↳ HP Truevision HD                        	id=10	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard            	id=11	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ HP WMI hotkeys                          	id=13	[slave  keyboard (3)]

and 

dconf read /org/gnome/settings-daemon/peripherals/touchpad/natural-scroll returns:
true

Comment 9 Paul Martin 2013-07-15 16:01:26 UTC
Terribly sorry, the above was before i rebooted. It works now. So it just probably needs a log out/login. I think this would be better if it worked right away, but it is certainly use-able now. Thanks.

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