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How can I enable touchpad edge scrolling on elementary OS?

Asked by Andre Salvatierra

I use a laptop and rely very much on keyboard-based navigation to get around my desktop quick, and that includes edge-scrolling on my touchpad. Somehow, this isn't enabled by default in elementary, although it works fine on Ubuntu 10.10 (which eOS is based on). It's kind of bothersome to have to click and hold on the scrollbar, which is on the far right of the window to scroll down long documents.

Help please?

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Andre Salvatierra (shinkaide) said : 		#1

Never mind. All I had to do was go to System > Preferences > Mouse > Touchpad = Problem solved.

Anyway, thanks. I'll go punch myself in the face now.

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Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel) said : 		#2

eOS has two-finger scrolling enabled by default.

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Andre Salvatierra (shinkaide) said : 		#3

I must note that the two-finger scrolling function was grayed out when I opened mouse settings (although it was selected). It wasn't working at the time. Perhaps multi-touch doesn't work for everyone out of the box?

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Avi Romanoff (aroman) said : 		#4

Care to post your laptop model? The two-finger scrolling option does indeed need kernel-level support; the Touchpad tab is simply a frontend. If it was greyed out, the kernel does not support it. Of course, support varies heavily from touchpad-to-touchpad. What might be reasonable, however, is that elementaryOS "fall back" to edge-scrolling if two-finger scrolling isn't available. This should probably happen in the installer. I'll report a bug for that :)

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Andre Salvatierra (shinkaide) said : 		#5

My laptop is an Acer Aspire 4736.

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abrsdk (abrsdk) said : 		#6

well what about laptops that does not have multitouch? two finger scroll wont work out of the box for those.

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Avi Romanoff (aroman) said : 		#7

Which is why I said we fall back to edge scrolling...

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CJay554 (cjay554) said : 		#8

my two finger scroll used to work with ubuntu but when going into elementary it was greyed out, also when by default it was enabled when i put two fingers on the touchpad the mouse jumped all over the screen, if its based from ubuntu shouldnt it have the same hardware support as ubuntu?