Touchpad scrolling no longer works

[mxyzptlk]

After a recent update, touchpad scrolling within Nautilus stopped working. Scrolling does work when the scrollbars are grabbed and moved, but edge scrolling and two-finger scrolling ceased working.

This behavior began concurrently with Bug #1010033 (gnome-search-tool randomly launching itself). I don't know if the two are related, but they began at the same time.

Scrolling works in all other applications except Nautilus. I don't think it's the same as Bug #949465 because A.) That's been fixed, and B.) Apparently touchpad scrolling in that bug would just send the user to the bottom of the Nautilus window instead of scrolling. In this case, Nautilus just doesn't scroll.

I've tried this in Gnome and Unity, with the same results.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: nautilus 1:3.4.2-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-25.40-generic 3.2.18
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-25-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu9
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Jun 7 13:06:50 2012
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
GsettingsChanges:
 org.gnome.nautilus.window-state geometry '800x550+483+226'
 org.gnome.nautilus.window-state start-with-status-bar true
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-04-09 (58 days ago)

[mxyzptlk (mxyzptlk)]

Update: Not sure what changed -- I deleted the .config/nautilus directory to no effect, then turned off the overlay scrollbars to no effect, restarted with overlay scrollbars off, and it touchpad scrolling seems to be working again.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report, closing if that's working again, it didn't seem likely to be a nautilus issue anyway since the software didn't change and is not doing anything different from other softwares to handling scrolling