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I am using the latest version of ubuntu 14.04 in the new lenovo Z510 ideapad laptop. I came across this problem while i was trying to enable my two-finger swipe action. Usually the mouse and touchpad setting will have separate columns for mouse and touchpad as shown here:

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Whereas in my case there is no two parts. Just one, as shown.

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Now can I get my settings back to normal, as shown here? Also, is it possible to enable both edge scrolling and two-finger scrolling without the use of third party apps like touchegg? If so, how?

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user281989
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I think it depends on how your touchpad is recognized - it looks the same with my HP Envy x360 15'. You will have more GUI options with gpointing-device-settings or Touchpad-indicator.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:atareao/atareao
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install touchpad-indicator
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Consumology
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It is possible to get back the touchpad and mouse settings in your control panel.

You can simply install it either from synaptic package manager or by using the following apt command

sudo apt-get install touchpad-indicator

If you are facing the problem with the settings just remove the mouse and touchpad settings file by the following command

rm -fr ~/.gconf/desktop/gnome/peripherals/mouse

Hope this will help you better to resolve your issues.

Shameerariff
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Have you checked to make sure the touch pad is active? Also, check and make sure synapics installed like it should have, you can check in the Ubuntu Software Center tool, just open it up, and type synaptics, you should see a small green circle with a check mark in it, showing that it is installed. If it's not there, just install it.

As for enabling both side and 2 finger scrolling, there is way to do that natively in Ubuntu, you would need third party apps to do it.

McLovin
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This is from the Debian packages so it may be different for you, but I doubt it.

   apt-get install xserver-xorg-input-synaptics

Have you tried using a synaptics configuration file instead? Here is an example of mine in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d

       Section "InputClass"
       Identifier      "Touchpad"                     
       MatchIsTouchpad "yes"                           
       Driver          "synaptics"                     
       Option          "MinSpeed"              "0.5"
       Option          "MaxSpeed"              "1.0"
       Option          "TapButton1"            "1"
       Option          "VertEdgeScroll"        "1"
       EndSection

Here I just set the speed and vertical scrolling. The settings you want are 

   "VertTwoFingerScroll"
   "HorizTwoFingerScroll"

I don't see how this is different from using the program you are already using, but it is always useful to know what is going on!

Oops! I didn't see that someone has already beaten me to it! Sorry!

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