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gpointing-device-settings package

Circular scrolling always resets to middle of touchpad on restart

Bug #697415 reported by joehill on 2011-01-04

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #489830: Settings of gpointing-device-settings are non-persistent. Edit Remove

This bug affects 5 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	gpointing-device-settings (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gpointing-device-settings

I have recently installed Maverick on an Asus seashell 1215t netbook and have set the "start point" of circular scrolling to the right edge. Whenever I restart the system, it automatically reverts the start point to the center, which is really annoying because whenever I try to move the cursor using the middle of the touch pad the page I'm on scrolls. It would be nice if my settings were remembered so I didn't have to open up the device settings each time.

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Ryan Thompson (rct86) wrote on 2011-01-16:

For what it's worth, you can add "synclient CircScrollTrigger=3" to your startup programs, changing the number as appropriate.

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Steve Murphy (stevemurphy) wrote on 2011-04-26:

Tried gpointing-device-settings in Natty and this appears to no longer be an issue. Setting the right edge for circular scrolling stays selected after a reboot.

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Steve Murphy (stevemurphy) wrote on 2011-04-26:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. However, I am closing it because the bug has been fixed in the latest development version of Ubuntu - Natty Narwhal.

If you need a fix for the bug in previous versions of Ubuntu, please follow the instructions for "How to request new packages" at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports#request-new-packages

Changed in gpointing-device-settings (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Fix Released

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alfbar1 (alfbar1) wrote on 2011-05-01:

To me the problem persist

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alfbar1 (alfbar1) wrote on 2011-05-01:

to me the issue persist

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joehill (joseph-hill) wrote on 2011-05-01:

I've upgraded to Natty and the problem persists for me too. I'm using Gnome rather than Unity.

I realized that my original description is off--I described it as selecting the center as the starting point, but it actually it starts up with all regions selected EXCEPT the center. This means that a tiny portion of the center of the touchpad can be used for moving the pointer while most of the mousepad initiates circular scrolling.

joehill (joseph-hill) on 2011-05-09

Changed in gpointing-device-settings (Ubuntu):
status:	Fix Released → Confirmed

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Piers Titus van der Torren (ptt) wrote on 2011-07-16:

savesettings.diff Edit (1.1 KiB, text/plain)

attached is a patch which corrects the following:
* circular scrolling start point saved in gconf, was not saved at all
* scrolling speed saved as int, was saved as bool

Reading properties worked correctly, so adding on or more of the following in gconf in /desktop/gnome/peripherals/SynPS... works as a temporary fix:
circular_scrolling_trigger = 3
vertical_scrolling_distance = 255
horizontal_scrolling_distance = 255

This is a copy of a comment on http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=615092

Brian Murray (brian-murray) on 2011-07-16

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NIlya (nilya) wrote on 2011-07-30:

Also in Natty it doesn't save "Enable vertical scrolling when dragging with two fingers" and "Enable horizontal scrolling when dragging with two fingers" states.

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Piers Titus van der Torren (ptt) wrote on 2011-08-01:

patch that corrects the direction of the sliders for scrolling speed Edit (1.3 KiB, text/plain)

There is something different with that setting, it does save it's setting, but doesn't load/activate it.

Another small bug is that the sliders for scrolling speed (vertical and horizontal) are the wrong way around, here is a small patch to fix that. (sorry if I should have opened a new bug for that)