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I have an Acer Aspire that I have dual booting XP and Ubuntu.
On the Windows side, the driver allows you to set how close your finger has to be to the edge of the TouchPad before it goes into scroll mode. In Ubuntu I don't have the option (at least in the GUI) to change the scroll area on the pad.
Is there a conf file or other way to change this? I'm constantly getting into the scroll area during normal usage. I would like to leave it on without losing so much pad area to the scroll feature.
According with this answer, you can enable both two finger scrolling and edge scrolling using the following commands in terminal:
synclient VertEdgeScroll=1
synclient VertTwoFingerScroll=1
The problem is that these commands are not persistent after a system restart. To prevent this, let's put them to run at start up.
First, make a new small bash script called scrolling with the following code inside:
#!/bin/bash
synclient VertEdgeScroll=1
synclient VertTwoFingerScroll=1
Save it in your ~/bin directory, and don't forget to make it executable using the following command in terminal:
chmod +x ~/bin/scrolling
Second, search for Startup Applications in Dash, and open it:
Then add the script scrolling to run at startup:
Very simple solution to that --- the edge scrolling function is not the 'default' function in ubuntu 14.04
Go to settings, then click on 'mouse and touchpad' then just uncheck the 'two finger scrolling' option. There you go, no restart, no hassle
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Unfortunately I have never found a reliable GUI for configuring such a thing. You'd have to use command line to alter the settings. It's a very ugly and hairy route.
This isn't what you're asking but here's a script I use on my own Acer Aspire. Perhaps you can use it:
If you make a .sh file, mark it as executable and set it to run on startup then you will have disabled edge scrolling and instead have fairly decent two-finger scrolling.
I do not know of any method to change the threshold, unfortunately. I have looked around many times for such settings. Xorg is severely limited in these areas, unfortunately.