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I mostly use kde, and I've loved it but I recently tried an hp laptop with all the synaptics suite and I played with it a bit and tried the mouse momentum feature, where the cursor continues after releasing the trackpad. I'm hooked, I want that feature in kde if it means PAYING for it, I seriously found it to be such an aesthetically pleasing feature that there is no way I want to just deal with not having it. Can someone either tell me how I can get the same thing natively or how to port/hack-onto-my-system synaptic configure tool/whatever?

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If you have a Synaptics touchpad, the relevant settings are CoastingSpeed and CoastingFriction. My settings are:

# synclient -l
...
CoastingSpeed           = 20
CoastingFriction        = 50

Try it out with 

synclient CoastingSpeed=20 CoastingFriction=50

Adjust the values till you find it comfortable. Look at How do I make my synclient settings stick? for instructions on making the seetings permanent.

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