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Issues with scrollbars, mouse scrollwheels, and touchpad gestures used for scrolling

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synaptics touchpad not working properly in Ubuntu 18.04 [duplicate]

I am new to Linux the first thing which is bothering me is I can't use scroll down on my touch pad I have to drag the scroll bar manually. If anyone can help me its a synaptics touchpad
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Ubuntu 18.04 Edge Scrolling won't turn off

I have recently upgraded to 18.04 and I can't seem to find a way to turn off edge scrolling on my touchpad. This is weird because when I check synclient it says "VertEdgeScroll = 0" which implies ...
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LibreOffice touch screen scrolling on Ubuntu 18.04

I use LibreOffice on Ubuntu 18.04. Touch screen scrolling doesn't seem to work in the app (I have it working outside the app and in other apps such as Firefox). In LibreOffice it just highlights text (...
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Horizontal natural scroll is reversed

After upgrade to Ubuntu 18.04, when I enable the Natural Scrolling setting and scroll with two fingers horizontally it works as if I didn't enable it, i.e. the behavior is the same as with natural ...
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Mousepad edge scrolling disabled in Ubuntu 18.04

As you can see there is no option for enabling edge scrolling in Ubuntu 18.04. Now I can only scroll with two fingers, which it sucks. How can I enable edge scrolling in Ubuntu 18.04?
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What can I do to make edge-scrolling work in Kubuntu 18.04

I just recently installed Kubuntu 18.04 on my Dell Latitude E6520 and everything seems to be working just fine except for one thing. I am unable to use edge-scrolling on the touchpad and when I ...
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Inverted Horizontal scrolling ubuntu 18.04

I recently upgraded from 17.10 to 18.04 and the horizontal scrolling is inverted. Natural scrolling does not affect it in any way, suggestions on how to change it back? (swipe rigth to go left)
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Xubuntu broken/slow mouse scroll

Since I installed Xubuntu onto my laptop, my mouse has been unable to scroll correctly. On xev, it takes around 5 scrolls of the wheel to register one input, while on mousepad and other applications, ...
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Is there a way to scroll back in terminal to a specific command?

I have a terminal command which gives me very long output and I want to check this output from the very first line of it. So far I have to scroll with the mouse and try to catch it, which is quite ...
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Mouse scroll problem

When I am using the mouse wheel to scroll it is very jumpy and often I am ending up on the same line or above when I try to scroll down. I have read threads about the same problem but the only ...
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17.10 Scrolling buggy after switching workspace

In about 1/3 of the times I switch workspaces in Ubuntu 17.10, the scroll on my mouse goes completely haywire first time I use it. It might go the wrong way, jump several 'ticks' of the scroll wheel, ...
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how to reverse trackpoint direction?

I would like to ask the following question. I installed Ubuntu 17.10.1 on my Thinkpad X1C 5th gen. Trackpoint worked after putting the kernel option "psmouse.proto=bare". But, I can not change the ...
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Why does chromium inputs 'j' and 'k' characters when I scroll horizontally?

I'm using Ubuntu 17.10 on a Thinkpad T470s (don't think this is relevant) and when I'm scrolling horizontally in Chromium (version 63) and the cursor is in an input box it types j and k characters (j ...
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Natural Scroll for touchpad in Lubuntu 17.10

Hi I've recently installed Lubuntu 17.10 on my acer laptop. Very happy overall but there are a few small tweeks I want to make. Something I can't find a way to fix is to set the touchpad to 'reverse' ...
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Delayed touchpad scrolling after keypress

This is a problem on my brand new Dell Latitude, equipped with Ubuntu 16.04. Whenever I press a key, the touchpad scrolling stops working for a second or so. It is quite annoying, as I usually Alt-...
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How do I adjust the mousewheel scroll speed on wayland on ubuntu 17.10

I have a logitech M500 mouse (M-U0007) and am running the default wayland (I think?) gnome desktop on 17.10. The scrollwheel speed is quite slow and I'd like to boost it a little. I found a few posts ...
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Re-enable horizontal scrolling in Ubuntu 17.10

Horizontal scrolling on my touchpad was disabled upon upgrading to 17.10 and I can't find a way to re-enable it in the settings. Two finger (horizontal and vertical) scrolling was the default ...
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17.10: Accidental clicks when trying to two-finger scroll quickly

Since upgrading to Ubuntu 17.10 I've been getting a lot of accidental clicks when using the "two-finger flick" gesture to scroll up and down. (I use both Tap to click and Two-finger scroll.) ...
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Two-finger scrolling not working since ubuntu 17.10+ [duplicate]

I recently upgraded to ubuntu 17.10 and since then I cannot do two finger scrolling, only edge scrolling. Any suggestions how to make the two finger scrolling work again? I use a Lenovo ThinkPad 450s ...
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Odd scrolling behaviour with shift key and mouse

I'm not sure what happened, but I have some odd symptoms which I'll describe as detailed as possible. I have my suspicion that this is a software issue - but could as well be hardware. Maybe. The ...
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Scrolling in Matlab brings up error "MEvent. CASE!"

Any time I scroll left, right, or to the edge of an up or down scroll, I get the error "MEvent. CASE!" in Matlab. It's really annoying because it happens even if I barely move my two fingers left or ...
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GNOME Shell: Maximize/switch apps by scrolling in taskbar

Just moved from Unity to GNOME Shell with the update to Ubuntu 17.10. In Unity I could maximize apps by placing my cursor on the app in the taskbar and scrolling. In GNOME this doesn't work. Is there ...
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Mouse scrolling jumps up and down (very uneven and hard to control) in Ubuntu 15.10

I have Ubuntu 15.10. Page scrolling is very hard to control with this mouse. When attempting to scroll with the mouse wheel, the scrolling sometimes moves erratically and often jumps back in reverse. ...
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Touchpad is not showing up in the dconf Editor?

I am running Ubuntu gnome 16.04 and wanted to create key bindings to change programs with horizontal scroll, like MacOS. But when I go into dconf Editor: org > gnome > settings-daemon > peripherals > ...
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Reverse two-finger scroll gesture not working in menu

I am on a Dell Inspiron 15 3000 series running Zorin OS 12.2 (I know this forum is for Ubuntu, but it is based on Ubuntu 16.04.2, and I am pretty sure this issue will be the same on either OS). I ...
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Libinput enabling Tapping and twofinger scrolling Ubuntu 17.04

I wanted to be able to do the twofinger scrolling and found out that purging synaptics and leaving libinput allowed me to do that. After that I noticed that the tap-to-click functionality wasn't ...
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Touchpad inertia scrolling everywhere 16.04

If I scroll with a touchpad in apps like nautilus and the software center in 16.04, I get a nice smooth result which has inertia scrolling (I think it's called that, maybe momentum or coasting). But ...
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Things scroll by themselves, and in terminal certain text appears by itself ~~~~~ [closed]

I recently partially updated my Ubuntu running on Asus a555la , and I tried to upgrade GNOME also and it worked. After all this certain things started happening: In any window that can scoll, after a ...
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Restore natural scrolling in Ubuntu 16.04 on Dell XPS 13

I have a Dell XPS 13 which, by default, has a very sensitive trackpad. As you are typing, if you brush the trackpad by accident, the trackpad considers it as a click and the text insertion point jumps ...
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How to enable natural scrolling on Ubuntu GNOME 16.04 [duplicate]

I have just installed ubuntu-gnome-16.04 flavor on my notebook and am quite pleased with it. But natural scrolling was not really working. I have followed some answers on these questions: Enable ...
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ASUS T300 CHI function keys and scrolling not working

I have the asus t300 chi computer dual booted with 16.04 LTS version. I have installed all the regular updates as they arrive. However the function keys and the touchpad functions such as left and ...
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How to increase "screen buffer" when connected to the machine via SSH?

TLDR: I want to see a lot more of my screen via scrolling back when the command/script (e.g. ls -la /etc) displays results that doesn't fit in 1 screen. If you check the screenshot below, it doesn't ...
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How to disable natural scrolling in Ubuntu GNOME 17.04?

I can't disable natural scrolling, and I have tried disabling and enabling it from the Mouse and touch-pad settings. I'm using GNOME Shell 3.24.1. I have already tried these commands: gsettings set ...
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Xubuntu and mouse scrolling direction [duplicate]

I'm using xubuntu (not unity) and mouse scrolling works totally wrong. I see first comments on this dated 2011. Now it is 2017 and everything is the same mess. So. I'm using xubuntu. And I like ...
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How to fix microsoft mouse scrolling speed on ubuntu

In case someone gets the same problem as I just got. When switching from Windows to Ubuntu (in dual-boot) my Microsoft wireless mouse scroll wheel goes nuts! It's totally over-sensitive.
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Enable natural scrolling on ubuntu 17.04 with gnome-shell

I've installed gnome-shell on ubuntu 17.04 and it works perfectly, but I'm having an hard time trying to enable natural scrolling using the trackpad. It works perfectly out of the box in unity, but in ...
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Turn off smooth scrolling in GTK3

On a default Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) installation, GTK3 applications (which include most of the default GUI applications) have smooth scrolling activated. How do I disable it? For example, in Gedit, ...
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Reverse UI-scrolling in Unity Ubuntu 16.04 with libinput

How can I reverse the UI-scrolling in Unity? My trackpad recognizes 2 fingers for scroll, but whenever I drag upwards, it scrolls up. I want it to be reverse, as if the trackpad mimics a touch-screen ...
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Toshiba Tecra A40 two finger scrolling activates right click

I'm trying to use Ubuntu 16.04 on a Toshiba Tecra A40 (ALPS touchpad) and I'm facing the following problem: When using the two finger scrolling function, the context menu (i.e.: right click) is also ...
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Terminal can't scroll after overnight idle computing

I'm on Ubuntu 16.04, using ubuntu terminal, running zsh with oh-my-zsh. I'm on a ssh session to a remote computer with the same configuration. I launched a big computing and forgot to output the ...
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In Unity, how can I change the launcher so that it doesn't automatically scroll to the top?

I have Ubuntu 16.04.1 installed on my tablet and its difficult to use because the launcher always scrolls to the top. I want to set it up so that it simply doesn't automatically scroll at all, what ...
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Unsmooth scrolling

I noticed since the first time I used Ubuntu that scrolling up and down with the mouse wheel seems a bit unresponsive compared to on Windows. It still works but the difference is noticeable. Does ...
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Scrolling error in Ubuntu GNOME 16.10

I was messing around with Ubuntu GNOME 16.10, when suddenly my mouse scroll wheel started acting up then reversed itself (up became down). It is occurring in multiple applications, including the 'Test ...
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I just updated from ubuntu 12.04 to 14.04 and I'm having a problem with scrolling

I just updated from ubuntu 12.04 to 14.04 and I'm having a problem with scrolling. The problem is the mouse click to scroll a page at a time has swapped from the old left click to page up down to ...
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What external touchpads work on Ubuntu? [closed]

By "work", I mean recognizing clicks, taps, multi-finger clicks, multi-finger taps, simultaneous horizontal and vertical scroll using 2 fingers, pinch to unzoom and vice versa. By multi-finger, I ...
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Swap vertical and horizontal scroll axis

Is there a way to swap the vertical and horizontal scroll axes, e.g., so that when scrolling right on the touchpad it scrolls down on screen?
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How to stop scrolling from switching between windows in Unity?

I keep accidentally moving my mouse over the launcher while I'm browsing websites and then switching to other windows when I try to scroll. I've never purposefully switched applications this way, and ...
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Can I use the touchpad for scrolling instead of the trackpoint on a thinkpad?

I can use my thinkpad's middle mouse button to scroll by holding it and using the trackpoint in the center of the keyboard to control speed. Is there a way I can reconfigure this so that, while ...
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scrollbar Issue in Ubuntu 16.04 Desktop

I have a scroll bar issue. There's a tiny pixel of margin to the right of the scroll bar, whenever I click on the scrollbar (on that margin) anywhere but not in the middle of it. The bar moves to ...
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LibreOffice Writer Scrolling

In Gnome 16.10 I cannot get smooth scrolling on the new LibreOffice Writer 5.2.2 It seems to scroll screen lengths instead of you know.. just scrolling. It was fine in gnome 16.04 This "scrolling" ...
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