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    [SOLVED] Touchpad edge scrolling not working by default

    After installing Kubuntu 18.04, the edge scrolling function for my notebook's touchpad did not work (no way to enable it, some settings greyed out). On the Opensuse forum I found that it has to do with a functionality regression in the new libinput driver. Solution: use the old synaptics driver instead.

    -> Uninstall xserver-xorg-input-libinput
    -> Install xserver-xorg-input-synaptics AND xserver-xorg-input-evdev (without the latter, the keyboard won't work anymore)

    Now everything's fine.

    #2
    Thanks for the heads up post!
    "A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”
    – John F. Kennedy, February 26, 1962.

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      #3
      I had the same problem with my laptop, but I could still scroll with two fingers instead of the edge scroll method. I did notice that a lot of the settings were unavailable too.

      It seems the libinput library is going to replace synaptics eventually as libinput is Wayland compatible:

      https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Libinput

      https://wayland.freedesktop.org/libi...est/pages.html
      Last edited by Rod J; May 14, 2018, 06:12 AM.
      Desktop PC: Intel Core-i5-4670 3.40Ghz, 16Gb Crucial ram, Asus H97-Plus MB, 128Gb Crucial SSD + 2Tb Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 HDD running Kubuntu 18.04 LTS and Kubuntu 14.04 LTS (on SSD).
      Laptop: HP EliteBook 8460p Core-i5-2540M, 4Gb ram, Transcend 120Gb SSD, currently running Deepin 15.8 and Manjaro KDE 18.

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