regression: scroll areas on touchpad do not work any more

[Paul Ortyl]

After update to 13.10 scroll areas on T500 touchpad stopped working. There is no option to turn it backon.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.6.3-0ubuntu33
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-4.9-generic 3.11.0-rc7
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-4-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.12.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Sep 7 22:38:14 2013
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-09-01 (371 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120823.1)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-09-05 (1 days ago)
usr_lib_gnome-control-center:
 activity-log-manager 0.9.7-0ubuntu4
 deja-dup 27.3.1-0ubuntu1
 gnome-control-center-datetime 13.10.0+13.10.20130903-0ubuntu1
 gnome-control-center-signon 0.1.7~+13.10.20130724.1-0ubuntu1
 gnome-control-center-unity 1.3daily13.06.19~13.04-0ubuntu1

[Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand)]

This affects me on thinkpad x201s as well.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Sami Jaktholm (sjakthol)]

For me touchpad scroll stopped working because the setting was changed to "Two finger scroll" during upgrade. Edge scrolling started to work after unticking the two finger scroll checkbox.

[Paul Ortyl (ortylp)]

"Two finger scroll" is selected, but disabled (cannot be changed!). As far as I can tell this "two finger scroll" does not work either.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for your bug report.

Jeremy is that another fallback from your change to enable that option by default? (similar to bug #1221367)

[Igor Zubarev (igor.zubarev)]

Affects me on Lenovo G555. Amd 64.

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

With gnome-settings-daemon 3.8 which was released to Ubuntu 13.10 yesterday, edge scrolling is disabled by default if two-finger scrolling doesn't work. You'll need to log out and log back in after applying updates.

I believe this is a duplicate of bug 1221367.

[Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand)]

I can confirm that two finger touch works here instead of edge scrolling.

[jan2ary (jan2ary)]

I can confirm all the claims here, and also fix from bug 1221367 works for me: install dconf-editor and manually change the value of org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.touchpad.scroll-method.

[Igor Zubarev (igor.zubarev)]

Still not work. Ubuntu Saucy Final Beta.

[MarKco (ilsecondodasinistra)]

I had to edit the configuration manually from dconf as well.
My PC is a Packard Bell something, laptop.

[Nat Wilson (njwilson23)]

In that case, my touchpad was mistakingly detected to support two-finger scroll. The dconf workaround (#10) worked. Xorg.0.log attached, if it's useful.

[Jan Groenewald (jan-aims)]

Also on Dell Latitude E5400, Edge scrolling stopped working after upgrade 13.04 to 13.10

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

is that the same issue than bug #1221367?

[Jan Groenewald (jan-aims)]

Yes, and the fix also works: manually change the value of org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.touchpad.scroll-method.