How to get two-finger scolling to work?

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Always wanted this feature but it never works in ubuntu. Is there any hack/mod to get it to work? My laptop is an Acer 5532, and my touchpad is from Synaptics. The latest drivers from Synaptics made two-finger scolling possible with Windos 7, so I'm guessing there's some way to work in Ubuntu/Linux.

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited Feb 29 '12 at 07:32

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Did you try to change the settings of the mouse in the control center?

mouse settings

If it still does not work, run synclient -l in the terminal and provide us the results.

edited Feb 29 '12 at 07:32

cweiske

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answered Nov 04 '11 at 14:40

dago

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score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 08 '11 at 18:53

So I guess you enabled the two finger scrolling as described in my first answer. As you cannot post the results of synclient -l try the following:

Open start up applications and add a new application and write the following command into the command line

xterm -e synclient "EmulateTwoFingerMinZ=10"

this will change the most probably too high value in synclient.

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 04 '11 at 06:47

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Touchpads explicitely need to support multi finger gestures. If you do not have such a touchpad, you are out of luck.

That's all to say without more information about your touchpad.

answered Nov 04 '11 at 06:47

cweiske

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How to get two-finger scolling to work?

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