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Andy Mack

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Registered: 2008-06-16

Posts: 133

[SOLVED] Synaptics vertical scroll width.

Every now and then when navigating a page i accidentally hit the scroll area, is it possible to change the width of the vertical scroll area? Not a big problem, arch is running beautifully and sort of stuck as to what to fiddle with next.

Man page doesn't seem to explain in simple english for me.

Thanks

Last edited by Andy Mack (2010-07-21 09:26:39)

Gusar

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Registered: 2009-08-25

Posts: 3,607

Re: [SOLVED] Synaptics vertical scroll width.

This will tell you the current position of the right edge scroll area:

$ synclient -l | grep rightedge
    RightEdge               = 5200

If you want to make the scroll area smaller, move the position:

synclient RightEdge=5400

Adjust numbers for you machine of course.
If you want to make it permanent, create an xorg.conf:

Section "InputClass"
    Identifier        "touchpad"
    MatchIsTouchpad   "on"
    Driver            "synaptics"
    Option            "RightEdge"        "5400"
EndSection

You can add other options like this as well.

Andy Mack

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Registered: 2008-06-16

Posts: 133

Re: [SOLVED] Synaptics vertical scroll width.

Worked a treat, thanks Gusar