Reverse Scrolling No Longer Working

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#1

Hi, I ran a dist upgrade earlier today on my 2015 Dell XPS 13 (9343) running LEAP 42.1 and reverse two finger scrolling no longer works. I have tried going to system settings and disabling it and enabling it but to no avail. Can anyone help me fix this?

Thanks.

#2

On Sat 12 Mar 2016 03:06:01 PM CST, tfh1 wrote:

Hi, I ran a dist upgrade earlier today on my 2015 Dell XPS 13 (9343)
running LEAP 42.1 and reverse two finger scrolling no longer works. I
have tried going to system settings and disabling it and enabling it but
to no avail. Can anyone help me fix this?

Thanks.

Hi
What desktop environment? What your after is ‘Natural Scrolling’ it use
to be present in gnome-shell, but seems to have been deprecated.

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#3

On Sat 12 Mar 2016 05:32:35 PM CST, malcolmlewis wrote:

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On Sat 12 Mar 2016 03:06:01 PM CST, tfh1 wrote:

Hi, I ran a dist upgrade earlier today on my 2015 Dell XPS 13 (9343)
running LEAP 42.1 and reverse two finger scrolling no longer works. I
have tried going to system settings and disabling it and enabling it but
to no avail. Can anyone help me fix this?

Thanks.

Hi
What desktop environment? What your after is ‘Natural Scrolling’ it use
to be present in gnome-shell, but seems to have been deprecated.

[/QUOTE]
Ahh found it for mouse and touchpad under;


org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.mouse/touchpad

Check if xf86-input-libinput is installed…


zypper in xf86-input-libinput

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#4

My desktop environment is KDE.

xf86-input-libinput was not installed but installing it did not affect the behaviour.

There is also a 1 pixel horizontal line that is the same colour as my task manager across the splash screen when I log in. I don’t know if the two problems are somehow related.

#5

I ran an upgrade which made the Touchpad menu disappear from the System Settings. xf86-input-libinput helped by letting me select reverse scrolling from the Mouse menu but doing this disabled other features such as tapping the touchpad for left click. I’ve used Snapper to rollback the system to before the dist upgrade for now so I will avoid upgrading in the future.

#6

I got bitten by the same issue, installing xf86-input-libinput itself didn’t help, but … entering the Input Devices module in Systemsettings, touchpad tab suddenly showed a lot of greyed-out options, and … an unchecked enable-clicking. Since it used to work without any tweaks, I hit the Defaults button, clicked Apply and instantly all is back to normal.