[SOLVED] - Synaptics unable to stop scrolling

dront78 · 2012-04-17 16:26:17

Hello

I've synaptics with two fingers vertical scroll enabled
Sometimes when I realesed scroll it still continue scrolling
The speed depends on speed I scroll manually before and works on all applications

My conf is Gnome3, ArchLinux x86_64 fully updated with linux-lts kernel and nvidia drivers

How I can disable this annoing feature?

Regards, Ivan

Last edited by dront78 (2012-04-18 06:19:00)

65kid · 2012-04-17 16:33:26

set "CoastingSpeed" to 0 in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-synaptics.conf :

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "touchpad catchall"
        Driver "synaptics"
        MatchIsTouchpad "on"
        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
        Option "TapButton1" "1"
        Option "TapButton2" "2"
        Option "TapButton3" "3"
	Option "CoastingSpeed" "0"
EndSection

And yes, this is annoying as hell, especially when you use a keyboard shortcut with Ctrl while it's still "coasting" and it resizes your text in firefox.

dront78 · 2012-04-17 16:43:39

65kid wrote:

set "CoastingSpeed" to 0 in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-synaptics.conf :
Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "touchpad catchall"
        Driver "synaptics"
        MatchIsTouchpad "on"
        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
        Option "TapButton1" "1"
        Option "TapButton2" "2"
        Option "TapButton3" "3"
	Option "CoastingSpeed" "0"
EndSection
And yes, this is annoying as hell, especially when you use a keyboard shortcut with Ctrl while it's still "coasting" and it resizes your text in firefox.

OMG. Thank you. Imagine I have this in Netbeans while coding also

Trilby · 2012-04-17 16:47:39

Ah, it's days like these I really love the arch community. I just came on to ask about this as the upgrade of xf86-input-synaptics (version ...902 -> ...903) made this an issue for me as well. CoastingSpeed did the trick.

LoBo3268715 · 2012-04-17 20:43:13

Nice work 65kid. Also dront78 don't forget to mark thread as solved.

bokal · 2012-04-18 11:22:08

Thanks so much!

vaccaaa · 2012-04-18 12:53:16

Thank you 65kid!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

EDIT:
Ps for KDE users: don't forget to untick "Enable Coasting" in "Touchpad settings -> Scrolling"!

Last edited by vaccaaa (2012-04-18 13:03:30)

Diaz · 2012-04-18 16:18:31

Thanks.

More options for synaptics can be seen on "man synaptics"

dront78 · 2012-04-18 19:00:46

Diaz wrote:

Thanks.
More options for synaptics can be seen on "man synaptics"

Yes it can but this one looks like a bug - not a feature

Cdh · 2012-04-19 08:46:28

Well, this behaviour was always there for me. When scrolling fast and then releasing the touchpad scrolling would quickly decelerate. Now it decelerates really slowly... And not only with two finger scrolling but with scrolling at the edge of the touchpad too.

That's a buggy default behaviour for me too.

edit: I installed kcm_touchpad and the slider for Coasting had no effect whatsoever. Disabling Coasting does successfully disable the scrolling after relasing the fingers from the touchpad. From this I would think that the bug is that the configuration options for Coasting don't work anymore.

Last edited by Cdh (2012-04-19 09:02:20)

alexey · 2012-04-19 09:08:33

thanks 65kid, i faced same thing after latest uprade.

jijijaco · 2012-04-19 18:43:48

Thank you for this solution ! I was already downgrading the package to older version...

doug piston · 2012-04-19 19:32:39

Trilby wrote:

Ah, it's days like these I really love the arch community. I just came on to ask about this as the upgrade of xf86-input-synaptics (version ...902 -> ...903) made this an issue for me as well. CoastingSpeed did the trick.

+1 I just came to the forum looking for this exact answer as lastest update foobar'd it. Quick search of "scrolling" and I'm a happy camper.

k.sarend · 2012-04-19 22:03:52

+1 Good job for the fix, 65kid.

Cdh · 2012-04-20 07:02:06

Indeed a bug, this is probably the fix, but I haven't tested it. Maybe we'll soon get an updated synaptics.
http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/9653/

oh and https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48855

Last edited by Cdh (2012-04-20 07:04:30)

ajaxas · 2012-04-20 12:52:09

This was *madness*! I had to downgrade the package and add it to ignore string in /etc/pacman.conf

Thanks a lot, 65kid!

frostering · 2012-04-21 09:18:38

Thank you! This was absolutely annoying...

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