SUMMARY Natural scrolling doesn't work with the Synaptics touchpad on my machine (HP EliteBook 745 G5). Whether I enable or disable the feature it makes no difference as it seems the setting is just ignored. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. enable natural scrolling in the settings OBSERVED RESULT Natural scrolling is not enabled. EXPECTED RESULT Natural scrolling is enabled. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux: KDE neon Focal KDE Plasma Version: 5.20.4 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.77.0 Qt Version: 5.15.2 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Forgot to mention: I am using Xorg. I didn't test it on Wayland.
Are you using the Libinput or Synaptics driver? If you don't know, can you take a picture of the config page in System Settings?
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #2) > Are you using the Libinput or Synaptics driver? If you don't know, can you > take a picture of the config page in System Settings? I'm using libinput.
Weird. All I can say is that it works for me. :p
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #4) > Weird. All I can say is that it works for me. :p There was one other person on the KDE Plasma group on Telegram that had the same issue, so I'm not the only one. I tried using "journalctl -b -p04 --follow" before enabling and disabling the setting, but nothing would turn up.
This affects me too. Reboot and reenabling the feature does not help. It used to work before, but broke around a week ago. I guess it has something to do with one of the updates. Operating System: EndeavourOS KDE Plasma Version: 5.21.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.82.0 Qt Version: 5.15.2 Kernel Version: 5.12.9-arch1-1 OS Type: 64-bit Graphics Platform: X11 Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i5-8250U CPU @ 1.60GHz Memory: 7.7 ГиБ of RAM Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® UHD Graphics 620
(In reply to Ivan Ivanov from comment #6) > This affects me too. Reboot and reenabling the feature does not help. It > used to work before, but broke around a week ago. I guess it has something > to do with one of the updates. > > Operating System: EndeavourOS > KDE Plasma Version: 5.21.5 > KDE Frameworks Version: 5.82.0 > Qt Version: 5.15.2 > Kernel Version: 5.12.9-arch1-1 > OS Type: 64-bit > Graphics Platform: X11 > Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i5-8250U CPU @ 1.60GHz > Memory: 7.7 ГиБ of RAM > Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® UHD Graphics 620 Were you by any chance using the Synaptics driver before and now you're using the libinput driver?
So, I did a bit of an experiment. I reinstalled the Synaptics driver package, enabled natural scrolling and then purged the package. This appears to have enabled control through libinput. It seems like the settings for the Synaptics driver still apply despite the package being removed (and not purged). I guess this is an issue with upstream packages? Nate, do you have any insight on what might be happening here?
Yes, that's exactly what was happening. Only one can be active at once.
Reopening as the issue reappeared out of the blue. I haven't had the Synaptics drivers installed for ages. Currently using Plasma 5.24.5, Frameworks 5.94.0 and Qt 5.15.4.
This appears to be fixed.