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Bug 760814 - Add a way to force edge scrolling
Add a way to force edge scrolling
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 768245
Product: mutter
Classification: Core
Component: general
3.19.x
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: mutter-maint
mutter-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2016-01-19 00:26 UTC by Sebastian Keller
Modified: 2016-07-27 18:13 UTC
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Description Sebastian Keller 2016-01-19 00:26:26 UTC 
Since [1] it is no longer possible to force edge scrolling on a two-finger scrolling capable touchpad. I prefer using edge scrolling though, since it allows using your thumb to scroll with the touchpad while using your index finger to control the trackpoint. Given that this is probably not a very common workflow I think it would be OK if this setting was only available via gsettings and not exposed anywhere in the control center.

Currently I'm using xinput to manually configure this, but that's not going to work for wayland.

[1] https://git.gnome.org/browse/mutter/commit/?id=a27b2597b962fe3fba1e79df134be4ebb2c39055
Comment 1 Rui Matos 2016-01-19 14:46:53 UTC 
I don't think this will be changed, but here's something that that you might find helpful: pressing the middle trackpoint button and moving the trackpoint up/down sends scroll events.
Comment 2 Sebastian Keller 2016-01-19 16:28:29 UTC 
Thanks for the suggestion, but I've disabled the middle trackpoint button scrolling here as well. It often was causing me to accidentally change tabs when trying to close them using middle click in chrome. (But that's not something I care strongly enough about to ask for an option for that.)

Would it increase the chances of a "prefer-edge-scrolling" setting getting accepted if I provided a patch? If so I would look into this.
Comment 3 Sebastian Keller 2016-07-27 18:13:29 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 768245 ***