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By "work", I mean recognizing clicks, taps, multi-finger clicks, multi-finger taps, simultaneous horizontal and vertical scroll using 2 fingers, pinch to unzoom and vice versa.

By multi-finger, I think 3 fingers recognition is enough. 4 is a bonus :) Example: 3 fingers tap to work as the middle click to fast close browser tabs or opening links in a new tab.

By external, I mean not built-in laptop touchpads.

So, know such a touchpad working on Ubuntu?

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I have experience with ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad on a Dell Vostro 5470, tested with 14.04.2, this touchpad works well with many gestures:

  • One-finger tap
  • Two-finger tap rightkey
  • Two-finger scrolling
  • Three-finger move / full screen / window switcher
  • Four-finger dash

It does not work with two-finger zoom/pinch, however, I don't think it's supported as it's not listed in the Ubuntu Wiki for Multitouch. So it looks like this touchpad fits your "working" criteria.

Here is the device information in case if you're interested:

I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=000e Version=0000
N: Name="ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad"
P: Phys=isa0060/serio1/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input6
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=mouse0 event5
B: PROP=5
B: EV=b
B: KEY=e420 10000 0 0 0 0
B: ABS=661800011000003
P.-H. Lin
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