[SOLVED] Touchpad edge scrolling not working by default

[Laurens]

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.

[GreyGeek]

Thanks for the heads up post!

[Rod J]

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