Scrolling coasting no longer works in Precise Pangolin
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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xserver-xorg-input-synaptics (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Bug Description
After upgrading to Precise (x86_64), the "coasting scrolling" feature of my Thinkpad T400 touchpad no longer seems to work. Scrolling itself works fine, both by (emulated) two-finger touch or at the edge of the pad, but coasting does not seem to get triggered even if I move my fingers across the sensor as fast as I can. I tried various settings of the "CoastingSpeed" and "CoastingFriction" options with no effect. It seems like the feature is disabled in the latest version of the synaptics driver (xserver-
All driver settings as reported by synclient are attached.
I found an older description of this bug
https:/ /bugs.launchpad .net/ubuntu/ +source/ xserver- xorg-input- synaptics/ +bug/930938
that seems to be actively worked on. Marking this as duplicate.