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Touchpad Click and Edge Scrolling broken in Fedora 11?

By ryanlerch

In Fedora 11, default mouse settings (with regards to laptop and notebook touchpads) have been slightly changed. In previous versions of Fedora, tapping the touchpad to “click” and scrolling using the edge of touchpads was enabled by default. In Fedora 11, these options are now disabled by default. To re-enable these options:

1. Open the Mouse Preferences dialog either by choosing  System > Preferences > Mouse from the Fedora Main Menu or by running the following command from a terminal:

gnome-mouse-properties

2. In the Mouse Preferences dialog, choose the Touchpad tab, and enable the options you desire.

Mouse Preferences Dialog

Mouse Preferences Dialog

This entry was posted on June 14, 2009 at 3:38 pm and is filed under X, f11, fedora, fedora11, howto, linux, release notes, technology, xwindows. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

9 Responses to “Touchpad Click and Edge Scrolling broken in Fedora 11?”

  1. Lycus HackerEmo Says:
    June 14, 2009 at 4:11 pm | Reply

    aqui hay otra forma de hacerlo:

    http://fedoreando.wordpress.com/2009/06/12/como-activar-el-clic-del-touchpad-en-fedora-11-leonidas/

  2. axet Says:
    June 14, 2009 at 4:37 pm | Reply

    two fingers scroll is awesome!

  3. Bruno Says:
    June 15, 2009 at 12:13 am | Reply

    Only thing is, on my laptop the setting is “forgotten” between reboots… :|

    • ryanlerch Says:
      June 15, 2009 at 11:55 am | Reply

      Apparently, the package gsynaptics may be causing this issue for you.

      try the command: 

      rpm -qi gsynaptics

      to see if that package is installed, and try removing it using:

      yum remove gsynaptics

      Removing the package may fix the issue of the setting not being saved. Apparently, gsynaptics is fighting with the settings and may be causing you your issues.

      Hope this works.

      FYI: here is the info from the rpm on the gsynapics package:

      Name       : gsynaptics
Version    : 0.9.16
Summary    : Settings tool for Synaptics touchpad driver
Description: A GTK+ tool to set scroll and tap preferences for the Synaptics touchpad driver.
  4. Edney Matias Says:
    June 15, 2009 at 1:01 am | Reply

    Now how do i do that within a kde envireonment without gnome-mouse-properties?

    Everything i tried was lost as soon as i rebooted my machine.

  5. Adam Williamson Says:
    June 16, 2009 at 6:11 am | Reply

    Have you been submitting these to the release notes?

    It would be great if you could submit any F12 issues like this to the release notes before release – it’d be good to have a really canonical source of information like this. I keep coming across nuggets like this which didn’t make it into the release notes for whatever reason. Sigh!

    • ryanlerch Says:
      June 17, 2009 at 7:59 am | Reply

      I actually only found out about these ones after the release (i.e. when i personally hit the issues). I posted these solutions on my blog, simply to get them out into the internets, where “the ultimate troubleshooting tool” (i.e. Google) can find them. When i get a chance, these notes will be integrated into the release notes, and the notes updated.

  6. Touchpad Click and Edge Scrolling broken in Fedora 11? « ryan lerch Says:
    June 16, 2009 at 11:31 pm | Reply

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  7. Chris Says:
    September 1, 2009 at 10:34 am | Reply

    On my mouse control panel are only two tabs, however double click works perfectly.
    I cant find proper code to activate scroling with one finger from the terminal

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