edge scrolling

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I have updated my Tumbleweed installation to Gnome 3.20. (hp pavilion g7 laptop)
But there is no longer the option in “mouse/touchpad” to select 2 finger or edge scrolling.
I am used to edge scrolling, so is there an other way to enable this function?

I tried it with dconf-editor (/org/gnome/settings-daemon/peripherals/)
But no touchpad was listed there.

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Hi, I don’t have the latest TW yet, but on my Gnome:Next LiveCD, based on TW 20160321, I see in dconf editor:

> org > gnome > desktop > peripherals > touchpad > edge-scrolling-enabled >>> true

and apparently the default is “true”.
So it should be possible to add that key in Gnome 3.20 even if the current TW config doesn’t show it.

HTH

3

Thanks for you’re answer

Maybe I’m doing it wrong, but I have added the key, but Dconf-editor is telling me that there is “No Schema Found”

The description says (when you select the key):

“No schema available. Dconf Editor can find a schema associated with this key.
The application that installed this key may have been removed, may have stop the use of this key,
or may use a relocatable scheme for defining its keys.”

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Unless they tweaked something in the last TW, the gschema involved should be/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.gschema.xml
installed by gsettings-desktop-schemas
The relevant section should read:


<schema gettext-domain="gsettings-desktop-schemas" id="org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad" path="/org/gnome/desktop/peripherals/touchpad/">
    <key name="edge-scrolling-enabled" type="b">
      <default>true</default>
      <summary>Whether edge scrolling is enabled</summary>
      <description>When disabled, touchpads that only support edge scrolling (and not 2-finger scrolling) will have that feature disabled.</description>
    </key>

In a terminal you should be able to do the following:


linux@nohostname:~> gsettings list-keys org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad
natural-scroll
click-method
edge-scrolling-enabled
left-handed
send-events
tap-to-click
speed
linux@nohostname:~>
linux@nohostname:~> gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad edge-scrolling-enabled
true
linux@nohostname:~> 
linux@nohostname:~> gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad edge-scrolling-enabled true
linux@nohostname:~>

See “man gsettings” for other options.

5

Hi, got back on Leap, Gnome 3.16, and here things are a bit different…


~> gsettings list-keys org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad
natural-scroll
click-method
**scroll-method**
left-handed
send-events
tap-to-click
speed
~> gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad scroll-method
**'edge-scrolling'**
~>

So something has changed indeed in-between and maybe an old schema file slipped in…
If so, you should file a bug report to alert TW maintainers.

6

Hi
Looks like the schema has changed for Gnome 3.20, also check that xf86-input-libinput is installed and if edge-scrolling is true all should be good…?

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Thanks for you’re patience and you’re answers.

xf86-input-libinput is installed.

when I go to my terminal:


jsteen@linux-i7ij:~> gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad edge-scrolling-enabled
true
jsteen@linux-i7ij:~>

so it should be enabled

If i look in Dconf-editor, the key “scroll-method” has the value ‘edge-scrolling’
But also “No schema found”
So edge-scrolling is still not working

8

It seems that the settings from the 3.18 version (e.g. “scroll-method”) are still in place and maybe interfere with the new Gnome 3.20 settings (e.g. “edge-scrolling-enabled”).
Check with a new user, if scrolling is as expected you may choose to rename (or delete) /home/jsteen/.config/dconf/user and rebuild your Gnome preferences from scratch.

9

Still no success.
I’m going to make a bug rapport.

10

for more info:
https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=973755

11

Hi, I had the same problem and I registered just to tell you about a workaround I learned from Fedora.

Follow these steps and you can get your edge-scrolling to work:

  1. Install " xinput "

  2. logout and login to Gnome 3.20 again.

  3. open a terminal and run: **xinput list
    ** - look for your touchpad and remember the ID. On my laptop with an Elantech touchpad the ID is 14.

  4. create a file called **edge-scroll-workaround.desktop in /usr/share/applications/ **for every user or for just 1 user in **~/.local/share/applications/ **

  5. with your favorite texteditor place the following in that file:
    **[Desktop Entry]
    Name=Edge scroll workaround
    Exec=/usr/bin/xinput set-prop 14 “libinput Scroll Method Enabled” 0, 1, 0 ** // Replace 14 with the ID of your touchpad! **
    Type=Application
    Name[en_US]=edge-scroll-workaround.desktop

**
6) If you don’t have gnome-tweak-tool installed, do so and run it.
7) In Gnome-tweak-tool go to: **Startup Applications
8) press + and search for edge-scroll-workaround **and add it.
9) logout and log in again.
10) pro-tip: you might want to disable Natural Scrolling for the Touchpad in **‘Settings’ **- **‘Mouse and Touchpad’

Happy scrolling!**

(Most of these steps are straight from the Fedora forum, I adopted it a slight bit for OpenSuSE Thumbleweed, the original post can be found here: ****https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/89443/how-to-enable-touchpad-edge-scrolling/ )

12

FYI, the last line in the .desktop file (name en_us) can safely be omitted.

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Thanks for this info.