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benob

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Registered: 2008-11-11

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[SOLVED] disabling synaptics scroll inertia

How can I disable scrolling inertia (scrolling continues after releasing your finger from the side of the touchpad)? I have a T400 with a synaptics touchpad, and I haven't found any xorg option that would do the job. It's pretty annoying when deciding to close a tab in a web browser with ctrl-w while the touchpad is still sending scroll events. It zooms / unzooms the page like crazy just before closing it.

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Solution in voidux's post

Last edited by benob (2011-02-25 16:13:50)

rickdg

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From: The Lowlands

Registered: 2011-01-01

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Re: [SOLVED] disabling synaptics scroll inertia

My Wacom Bamboo does the same. As soon as I release the scroll pad, it sends a final button 4 event. I can never reach the end of a website.

Slightly annoying but haven't found a way to fix it yet.

Last edited by rickdg (2011-02-25 14:17:33)

voidux

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Re: [SOLVED] disabling synaptics scroll inertia

I had the same annoying behaviour of touchpad on dell latitude d620. Here is the solution:

xinput --set-prop --type=float "AlpsPS/2 ALPS DualPoint TouchPad" "Synaptics Coasting Speed" 0 0

But don't forget to change "AlpsPS/2 ALPS DualPoint TouchPad" string to yours, according to output of `xinput list`.

Last edited by voidux (2011-02-25 16:05:34)

benob

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Re: [SOLVED] disabling synaptics scroll inertia

It works! Thanks a lot.

I just added that line to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-synaptics.conf

Option "CoastingSpeed" "0"

tom5760

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Re: [SOLVED] disabling synaptics scroll inertia

You can also set it in your per-user config by adding something like this to your ~/.xinitrc

synclient CoastingSpeed=0

catalin.hritcu

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Re: [SOLVED] disabling synaptics scroll inertia

Sorry for commenting on this so much after the fact, but I used the solution proposed by tom5760 for a while, just that now it stopped working. Does anyone know why or how to fix this again?

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: [SOLVED] disabling synaptics scroll inertia

Sorry for commenting on this so much after the fact, but I used the solution proposed by tom5760 for a while, just that now it stopped working. Does anyone know why or how to fix this again?

You should open a new thread and link back to this one.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … bumping.22

When you do, post the content of your synaptics configuration file (if you use one) and the output of:

synclient

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