How to adjust TouchPad edge scroll area in Ubuntu?

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Published on 2011-01-18T10:54:32Z Indexed on 2012/09/02 3:49 UTC
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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.

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