This could be your Trackpad
Very few people know that every synaptics trackpad supports multitouch and as long as your OS supports it you can always use multitouch to enhance your computers interface. Apple has patented several UI design elements ,hence has inhibited Windows and Linux to come out with similar UI elements like pinch and zoom, scroll etc.
If you are using Windows xp, vista or Windows 7 then click here
Install Synaptics driver in ubuntu
apt-get install xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
Now edit your xorg.conf file
sudo vi /etc/X11/xorg.conf
find the input section
Section “InputDevice” Identifier “Synaptics Touchpad”
Add these lines in it
Option “HorizEdgeScroll” “on”
Option “VertEdgeScroll” “on”
Option “VertTwoFingerScroll” “on
Option “HorizTwoFingerScroll” “on”
Option “CornerCoasting” “on”
Option “PalmDetect” “on”
Option “CircularScrolling” “on”
Option “CircScrollTrigger” “3”
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Posted by Marinkina on May 21, 2009 at 11:15 pm
Качество друзей тоже надо учитывать. Дональд Трамп, например, на двадцатку потянет.
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Posted by Cederash on May 23, 2009 at 9:47 pm
Навеяно наверное стандартным мышлением? Будьте проще ))
Posted by Avertedd on May 26, 2009 at 8:08 am
Супер статья!
Posted by Brandon on August 14, 2009 at 5:01 pm
I tried this on Ubuntu 9.04. I already had the synaptics driver installed. It was all relatively straightforward (though I didn’t have vi, so I used gedit), but it crashed x, and made Ubuntu unbootable. I had to boot to terminal to repair it. So, reader be warned, if you mess with this, cp your xorg.conf beforehand, and be ready to boot from CD or boot to terminal to repair it.
Before you make changes, backup with
sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf xorgbackup.conf
If you trash your install, from terminal
sudo cp /etc/X11/xorgbackup.conf xorg.conf
To fix it.
Happy hacking!
Posted by atr on August 25, 2009 at 10:38 pm
try
cat /proc/bus/input/devices
if you have synaptics touch pad, you will see something like this
N: Name=”SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad”
Posted by Brandon on September 2, 2009 at 4:43 pm
I do have a Synaptics touch pad–I of course made sure of that before tweaking xorg to implement Synaptics features. (I already had multitouch up and working in both Vista and Windows 7, I just can’t for the life of me get Ubuntu to play nice.)
By the way, I just re-read my post saying I don’t have vi, which was a typo. Of course I have it with Ubuntu, but I don’t prefer it for simple appending of a few lines. I don’t know what made me say I don’t have it.
Anyway, I’ve done a lot of Googling, and found a lot of (all very different) methods of hacking Ubuntu, Debian, or other distros to use Synaptics multitouch, but they all seem to be specific to older or different distros. Hmmm. I sure wish someone would publish a (better) tool to the repositories to enable this.
Posted by pastorjack on November 12, 2009 at 6:51 pm
hey. Ive been trying to make this work for a while now… my touchpad is listed as “synPS/2 Synaptics Touchpad” I have the synaptics driver at the newest version, but my xorg.conf has no ‘input device’ section. i did a bit of reading and it seems that Hal is now being used to configure this stuff. i tried the example on the ubuntu site, but to no effect.
Does the xorg way still work?
CAN i just add an input device section to it?
any ideas would be appreciated.
thanks
-j
Posted by neistridlar on February 12, 2010 at 7:13 pm
To everyone using Ubuntu and it’s derivatives, I found some package in synaptic packagemanager that gave me a GUI to do the settings. It worked flawlessly. I don’t remember the name, but search for touchp (i’m a lazy typist), you should be able to find the right packages
Posted by paha on March 20, 2010 at 5:42 pm
gsynaptics ;]
Posted by codeator on March 22, 2010 at 6:48 pm
Клёво! Заработало на моём Acer. Спасибо =)
Posted by noname on April 6, 2010 at 9:41 pm
on openSUSE its enabled withoput doing something… just zoom, scroll and have fun with the touchpad 😀
Posted by Alphin AloorAttathra on February 27, 2011 at 6:58 pm
i’ve found the input/
i’m not used to linux coding… so when i try errors like Pattern not found and stuff come…
can u gimme a dummy’s guide
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Posted by Jared on September 20, 2012 at 2:42 pm
I came across this after just installing Ubuntu 12.04. xserver-xorg-input-synaptics was already installed, but I was able to make the changes by just going to Settings->Mouse and Touchpad
Posted by 童貞 on September 26, 2012 at 8:56 pm
You should change the smart quotes in the code to normal quotation marks so that people can copy and paste directly from your post to their xorg.conf .
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