Bug 981963 - no touchpad edge scrolling in fedora 19 gnome
Summary: no touchpad edge scrolling in fedora 19 gnome
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gnome-settings-daemon
Version: 19
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Bastien Nocera
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-07-07 10:46 UTC by Sam Tygier
Modified: 2015-02-18 13:58 UTC (History)
13 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2015-02-18 13:58:54 UTC
Type: Bug
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
Xorg log from MSI GE60 (33.71 KB, text/x-log)
2013-07-20 17:20 UTC, Johan Heikkila
no flags Details
2nd Xorg log from MSI GE60 (43.97 KB, text/x-log)
2013-07-25 12:40 UTC, Johan Heikkila
no flags Details
Can't change 2 finger setting (37.25 KB, image/png)
2013-11-16 22:47 UTC, openfred
no flags Details

Description Sam Tygier 2013-07-07 10:46:06 UTC
Description of problem:
In fedora 19 gnome I can't scroll using the edge of my trackpad. There is not option in the mouse/trackpad control panel to enable it. It worked in previous fedora versions. it also works fine if i log in with MATE.

Lenovo S12

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Fedora 19

How reproducible:
Everytime

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Log in with GNOME.
2. Open a window with scroll bars
3. Try to scroll with edge of trackpad

Actual results:
mouse pointer moves

Expected results:
window scrolls

Additional info:

Comment 1 Peter Hutterer 2013-07-09 23:03:24 UTC
please attach your xorg.log and the output of gsettings list-recursively | grep touchpad

Comment 2 Sam Tygier 2013-07-10 08:39:43 UTC
Hi, The laptop was stolen from me, so i'm affraid I can't provide any more info. If no one else is affected feel free to close this. Thanks.

Comment 3 Peter Hutterer 2013-07-10 23:43:05 UTC
ok, thanks for the update. sorry to hear about the laptop though.

closing this for now, please re-open if you can reproduce on some other machine.

Comment 4 Johan Heikkila 2013-07-20 17:19:16 UTC
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=981963

I have the same problem with MSI GE60. The touchpad went nuts after the latest update (xorg-x11-drv-synaptics-1.7.1-3.fc19.x86_64). It worked fine some time before and in Fedora 18 (not sure how long edge scrolling hasn't worked, though, at least it worked in F18).

Symptoms:

- After resuming a suspend, or after starting/rebooting, a touchpad icon is flashing over the GDM login prompt, alternating with an X in the lower right corner of the touchpad and without an X. The same flashing of the touchpad icon is also seen on another desktop PC, which doesn't have a touchpad at all (F19 with all updates).

- After a computer reboot, the touchpad is turned off and I can't turn it on at the login prompt, nor after logging in, using the keyboard hot keys (which worked before). I have to go to settings and manually turn on the touchpad.

- Edge scrolling doesn't work anymore

After a yum downgrade xorg-x11-drv-synaptics (to 1.7.1-2.fc19) the first two issues seems gone, but edge scrolling still doesn't work. I.e. I am able to turn off and on the touchpad using hotkeys both at login prompt and logged in and there is no flashing icon.

Attached Xorg log.

[root@msi ~]# gsettings list-recursively | grep touchpad
org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.touchpad disable-while-typing false
org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.touchpad horiz-scroll-enabled true
org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.touchpad left-handed 'mouse'
org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.touchpad motion-acceleration -1.0
org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.touchpad motion-threshold -1
org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.touchpad natural-scroll false
org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.touchpad scroll-method 'two-finger-scrolling'
org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.touchpad tap-to-click false
org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.touchpad touchpad-enabled true
org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.touchpad disable-while-typing false
org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.touchpad horiz-scroll-enabled true
org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.touchpad left-handed 'mouse'
org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.touchpad motion-acceleration -1.0
org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.touchpad motion-threshold -1
org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.touchpad natural-scroll false
org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.touchpad scroll-method 'two-finger-scrolling'
org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.touchpad tap-to-click false
org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.touchpad touchpad-enabled true

Comment 5 Johan Heikkila 2013-07-20 17:20:10 UTC
Created attachment 776206 [details]
Xorg log from MSI GE60

Comment 6 Johan Heikkila 2013-07-25 12:31:49 UTC
> 
> After a yum downgrade xorg-x11-drv-synaptics (to 1.7.1-2.fc19) the first two
> issues seems gone, but edge scrolling still doesn't work. I.e. I am able to
> turn off and on the touchpad using hotkeys both at login prompt and logged
> in and there is no flashing icon.
> 

Now I get the same behaviour with 1.7.1-2.fc19 (touchpad turned off, icon flashing). It doesn't seem to be tied to these versions. The only I can tell is that it worked in F18.

Comment 7 Johan Heikkila 2013-07-25 12:40:00 UTC
Created attachment 778249 [details]
2nd Xorg log from MSI GE60

I see some different output in Xorg log now

Comment 8 David Woodhouse 2013-10-13 08:39:08 UTC
This broke for me too when I upgraded to F19 on an Acer Extensa 5230E. The GUI settings tool seems to have a checkbox for two-finger scrolling, which is checked, and also greyed out.

I fixed it at least temporarily with:

gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.touchpad scroll-method 'edge-scrolling'

Not sure yet if it'll persist. But I don't think it's a driver problem; I suspect the GNOME settings stuff has been dumbed-down too much...

Comment 10 MV 2013-10-28 22:44:37 UTC
Hi, this also occurs in Fedora Alpha 20 with gnome 3.10

Two fingers scroll is always enable, also if your laptop don't support (tested on a T400) so no scrolling.

The only work around is using the command line:

gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.touchpad scroll-method 'edge-scrolling'

Comment 11 Alexander van Loon 2013-11-10 13:27:49 UTC
I confirm that I could not use my laptop's touchpad for scrolling either on Fedora 20 Alpha. I fixed by going to "Settings" → "Mouse and Trackpad" and then disabling "Two finger scroll", which was enabled by default. My laptop is an Acer TravelMate TimeLine 8371 and it does not support two finger scrolling.

I know this was an issue in the past, which was fixed in bug #960579 which is now closed. Since this has been confirmed to affect Fedora 20 Alpha as well, could the reporter please update the version to 20?

Comment 12 openfred 2013-11-16 22:46:41 UTC
On Thinkpad T500, only Intel graphic card, same issue: no scroll available on the trackpad. 
The main difference with Comment #11 is that I can't disable "Two finger scroll" ("Défilement à 2 doigts" in screenshot).
T500 trackpad does not support 2 finger scrolling as well.

Comment 13 openfred 2013-11-16 22:47:50 UTC
Created attachment 824986 [details]
Can't change 2 finger setting

Comment 14 collura 2014-01-24 04:53:51 UTC
had similar problem in a toshiba satellite L355D-S7901 
with a synaptics trackpad.

(could fix with dconf editing of comment#8 
but left to see when it would repair itself).

happy to report that the problem was fixed when 
fedup updated from fc19 to fc20 :')

didnt track down the fix but currently working for my hardware with:

  kernel-3.12.8-300.fc20.x86_64
  gnome-shell-3.10.3-1.fc20.x86_64
  systemd-208.9.fc20.x86_64
  control-center-1:3.10.2-4.fc20.x86_64
  xorg-x11-drv-synaptics-1.7.1-6.fc20.x86_64

thanks :')

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