It seems that some of the touchpad customization options that were available previously have been removed in Fedora 24. In particular, two-finger scrolling is enabled by default, but edge scrolling is not available. Also, tap-to-click is disabled by default. Neither the Mouse Settings app nor Tweak-Tool have options to change those settings.
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Is there a manual way to set those options with dconf-editor or some other tool?
TIA.
On 06/24/2016 08:04 PM, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
It seems that some of the touchpad customization options that were available previously have been removed in Fedora 24. In particular, two-finger scrolling is enabled by default, but edge scrolling is not available. Also, tap-to-click is disabled by default. Neither the Mouse Settings app nor Tweak-Tool have options to change those settings.
Is there a manual way to set those options with dconf-editor or some other tool?
Try "gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad scroll-method 'edge-scrolling'".
On Sat, 2016-06-25 at 22:17 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 06/24/2016 08:04 PM, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
It seems that some of the touchpad customization options that were available previously have been removed in Fedora 24. In particular, two-finger scrolling is enabled by default, but edge scrolling is not available. Also, tap-to-click is disabled by default. Neither the Mouse Settings app nor Tweak-Tool have options to change those settings.
Is there a manual way to set those options with dconf-editor or some other tool?
Try "gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad scroll- method 'edge-scrolling'".
OK, thanks. I checked and the current settings are the ones I want (and presumably set at some point in the past): scroll-method is 'edge- scrolling' and tap-to-click is true, but that's not how the touchpad is behaving.
In dconf-editor, there's a comment next to the scroll-method setting that says "No schema found". Also, the lines for scroll-method and tap- to-click are in bold-face type. I guess that means they are not at their default values. Also, there is a setting for edge-scrolling- enabled, and it is set to true.
Also, is there someplace all those settings are documented?
On Sun, 2016-06-26 at 10:10 +0000, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
On Sat, 2016-06-25 at 22:17 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 06/24/2016 08:04 PM, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
It seems that some of the touchpad customization options that were available previously have been removed in Fedora 24. In particular, two-finger scrolling is enabled by default, but edge scrolling is not available. Also, tap-to-click is disabled by default. Neither the Mouse Settings app nor Tweak-Tool have options to change those settings.
Is there a manual way to set those options with dconf-editor or some other tool?
Try "gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad scroll- method 'edge-scrolling'".
OK, thanks. I checked and the current settings are the ones I want (and presumably set at some point in the past): scroll-method is 'edge- scrolling' and tap-to-click is true, but that's not how the touchpad is behaving.
In dconf-editor, there's a comment next to the scroll-method setting that says "No schema found". Also, the lines for scroll-method and tap- to-click are in bold-face type. I guess that means they are not at their default values. Also, there is a setting for edge-scrolling- enabled, and it is set to true.
Also, is there someplace all those settings are documented?
Any suggestions how to debug this? The machine in question is a Dell Latitude E6430. I have an older Latitude laptop where it works with no problem.
If I should file a bug, against what component?
TIA.
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