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How do I turn off edge scrolling? I went to the touchpad settings and none of the choices would turn it off.

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    can you mention which device(Laptop) are you using. I had similar problem in my Dell Vostro and I installed synaptic pointing device(software) and I was able to configure it.
    – Aatish Sai
    Feb 24, 2014 at 3:51

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Try this, from a command line:

gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.touchpad scroll-method "disabled"

If your hardware support it, you can try

gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.touchpad scroll-method 'two-finger-scrolling' 

which I find much less invasive. With my touchpad, the options are:

% gsettings range org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.touchpad scroll-method
enum
'disabled'
'edge-scrolling'
'two-finger-scrolling'

I am not sure about which flavor of Ubuntu/DE you have, so I explain how I found it: I launched dconf-editor (if you do not have it, install the package with the same name), and using Find -> "edge" I had (after clicking three or four times "next") this screen:

dconf-editor discovering option

For using the command line gsettings you have to look at the Schema: path in the description of the key.

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  • I did as you say, but edge scrolling is still active on my Ubuntu 14.04.
    – MERose
    Aug 15, 2015 at 13:58
  • dconf-editor worked for me May 31, 2016 at 15:23
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If Rmano's answer doesn't work for you, it may be because you have a Synaptics touchpad, which will have its own settings in addition to the Gnome ones. You can check by running

xinput list

at the command line and looking for the touchpad entry.

If you do have a Synaptics touchpad, run

synclient

to list its settings. You can then change them by running commands like

synclient VertEdgeScroll=0

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