mouse and trackpad settings missing

[Matthew Kennedy]

The settings window for Mouse & Touchpad is missing the section for Tap-to-click and Natural Scroll. It used to be there in 15.04 but isn't in 15.10. Also things like palm detection aren't working.

[SB (sir-beafy)]

I'm also having this. Is there any work around for this? Not having natural scrolling is very bothersome.

[SB (sir-beafy)]

I found the workaround for getting natural scrolling, it probably works with all other options aswell. Here it is:

1. Edit file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf (create file and directory if necessary)
2. Add the following
Section "InputClass"
     Identifier "touchpad catchall"
     Driver "synaptics"
     MatchIsTouchpad "on"
     MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
 Option "VertScrollDelta" "-111"
     Option "HorizScrollDelta" "-111"
EndSection
3. Run dconf-editor to change org>gnome>settings-daemon>plugins>mouse>active to false
3.1 (Alternatively use cmd "gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.mouse active false")
4. Reboot and enjoy

Source: German ubuntuusers wiki https://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Touchpad/

[SB (sir-beafy)]

Edit: Also add option ' Option "HorizEdgeScroll" "1" ' to above mention, to enable horizontal scrolling if desired.

[SB (sir-beafy)]

Same problem in Ubuntu Gnome 16.04 Beta 1

[Bob Merhebi (bobmerhebi)]

Another bug report has been marked as a duplicate of this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-gnome/+bug/1710600

It has screenshots comparing Ubuntu Gnome 16.04 and 17.04. In the latter it seems to have been fixed.
Will it be fixed for 16.04?

[Bob Merhebi (bobmerhebi)]

Another relevant issue is one cannot scroll through a page while test is highlighted and button is held. One should be able to scroll to select further text before releasing the button.

[Bob Merhebi (bobmerhebi)]

Solution for missing options:

sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-input-libinput

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