Mouse Touchpad Not Edge Scrolling

**CrusaderAD** · October 7th, 2012

Hello everyone. My left click wasn't working on my touchpad so I looked around and found this command:

Code:

sudo echo options psmouse proto=exps > /etc/modprobe.d/psmouse.modprobe

Which enabled it on reboot. Now edge scrolling doesn't work. Any ideas? I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 64bit on a Acer Aspire S3.

**CrusaderAD** · October 7th, 2012

Also I did check and there isn't a setting pretaining to this in Mouse and Touchpad settings.

**CrusaderAD** · October 10th, 2012

Bump

**pqwoerituytrueiwoq** · October 10th, 2012

not sure if unity has the same mouse/touthpad gui as xfce but it is there is xfce
see screenshot

**newb85** · October 10th, 2012

I can confirm that that those scrolling options are standard in Ubuntu, as well.

**CrusaderAD** · October 10th, 2012

Code:

sudo echo options psmouse proto=exps > /etc/modprobe.d/psmouse.modprobe

must have disabled those options as they're no longer in that windowed gui.

**cortman** · October 10th, 2012

Have you tried running

Code:

synclient VertEdgeScroll=1

**CrusaderAD** · October 11th, 2012

Originally Posted by cortman

Have you tried running

Code:

synclient VertEdgeScroll=1

Didn't work, I got this error message:

Couldn't find synaptics properties. No synaptics driver loaded?

**cortman** · October 12th, 2012

Either your touchpad is an Elantech model or you don't have the proper driver loaded for Synaptics- running

Code:

xinput

would tell you which one you have.

**CrusaderAD** · October 13th, 2012

Thanks. This is the output...

Code:

⎡ Virtual core pointer                    	id=2	[master pointer  (3)]
⎜   ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer              	id=4	[slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ PS/2 Generic Mouse                      	id=11	[slave  pointer  (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard                   	id=3	[master keyboard (2)]
    ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard             	id=5	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Power Button                            	id=6	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Video Bus                               	id=7	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Sleep Button                            	id=8	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ 1.3M HD WebCam                          	id=9	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard            	id=10	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Acer WMI hotkeys                        	id=12	[slave  keyboard (3)]