Bug 612834 - kde4 touchpad configuration dialog does not allow to enable two-finger scrolling
Summary: kde4 touchpad configuration dialog does not allow to enable two-finger scrolling
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 658800
Alias: None
Product: openSUSE 11.3
Classification: openSUSE
Component: KDE4 Workspace (show other bugs)
Version: Final
Hardware: x86-64 openSUSE 11.3
: P5 - None : Normal (vote)
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Reported: 2010-06-09 11:48 UTC by Michael Schmuker
Modified: 2011-01-09 18:11 UTC (History)
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2010-06-09 11:51 UTC, Michael Schmuker 		Details
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Description Michael Schmuker 2010-06-09 11:48:48 UTC 
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/4.4; Linux) KHTML/4.4.3 (like Gecko) SUSE

The touchpad configuration dialog in kde4's systemsettings has checkboxes to enable vertical and horizontal scrolling with two fingers, but they are greyed out and can't be checked. Manually enabling two-finger scrolling works using xinput. But putting the appropriate lines into .xinitrc or .xsession does not help, since kde4 seems to reset these values upon startup.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open the mouse & touchpad configuration dialog in the kde systemsettings
2. go to Touchpad -> Touchpad configutation -> Scrolling
3. notice the greyed-out checkboxes which are supposed to give you two-finger scrolling

Actual Results:  
checkboxes are greyed out, can't be checked.


Expected Results:  
Checkboxes should be checkable, giving the user two-finger scrolling.
Comment 1 Michael Schmuker 2010-06-09 11:51:41 UTC 
Created attachment 368115 [details]
screenshot of the touchpad configuration dialog

Added a screenshot of the configuration window that shows the greyed-out checkboxes.
Comment 2 Michael Schmuker 2010-06-22 12:05:04 UTC 
In the panel "Touchpad-Informationen" (german localization), it displays that my touchpad recognized only one finger. I can't change that value. But my touchpad can do more and two-finger scrolling works perfectly when I enable it via synclient or xinput. 

So probably this problem is due to insufficient detection of hardware?
Comment 3 Michael Schmuker 2010-07-12 20:11:07 UTC 
Problem still exists in GM.
Comment 4 Christian Trippe 2011-01-08 20:54:59 UTC 
Probably a duplicate of bug 658800

Could you test the package mentioned there?
Comment 5 Michael Schmuker 2011-01-09 12:01:58 UTC 
(In reply to comment #4)
> Probably a duplicate of bug 658800

Bug 658800 is more recent than this one, so strictly speaking 658800 is a duplicate of this bug ;) .

> Could you test the package mentioned there?
I tested it, it works. That is, it lets me enable Two-Finger Scrolling. 

However, the option of assigning two- and three-finger taps to mouse actions is still greyed out.
Comment 6 Christian Trippe 2011-01-09 18:11:39 UTC 
(In reply to comment #5)
> (In reply to comment #4)
> > Probably a duplicate of bug 658800
> 
> Bug 658800 is more recent than this one, so strictly speaking 658800 is a
> duplicate of this bug ;) .
> 

I know, but the other one had the (for me) more useful information. So I hope you do not mind if I close this one as dup and follow up in the other report.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 658800 ***