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The issue at hand

My aim is to enable natural scrolling on system start (or session start), which - up until now - could be easily achieved using a startup script, but since migrating from 12.04 (32 bit) to 13.04 (64 bit) I'm not able to automate this task.

Here's the script used:

#!/bin/sh
xinput set-prop 12 273 -25 -25

it works when running independently, so it seem to be overridden by a later call. How to resolve this?

What have I tried?

  • Adding an entry in the Startup Applications for the trackpad script
  • Using a @reboot flagged entry in crontab to call the xinput command
  • Calling the trackpad script in .bash_login, or in .profile
  • Adding a .conf file in /etc/init
  • I think at some point I even tried to mess around with sequencing directories and sequencing file names under /etc/rc*
  • Including a call in various scripts under /etc/pm (that actually got things working for the boot phase, but any subsequent suspend/sleep would deactivate the trackpad custom settings, again).

Environment

Dell XPS 13, Ubuntu 13.04 64 bit.

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Eliran Malka
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This doesn't explain why it is happening, it's just a workaround.

You could automatically reset the property whenever it changes. Use this script:

#!/bin/bash
while true; do
  xinput list-props 12 | grep -q "Synaptics Scrolling Distance (273):.*-25, -25" || xinput set-prop 12 273 -25 -25
  sleep 5
done
Eric Carvalho
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I recently installed Ubuntu 13.04 on a Dell Inspiron 17R, and my touchpad was only recognized as a PS/2 mouse. I found a post on the Ubuntu Forums that contained a custom driver to enable the touchpad features. Once I installed it, Ubuntu's System Settings > Mouse and Touchpad settings listed the touchpad options. And then a post on how to enable Natural Scrolling using dconf-editor. I hope this helps.

Garry
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