I'm trying to enable some multitouch gestures to mirror what OS X is capable of doing, such as brushing three fingers across the trackpad to switch desktops, swiping two fingers to navigate back in nautilus or firefox etc. I'm trying to use touchegg, but I'm not sure if ubuntu sees my trackpad as a device with more than two finger support.
By default on mac os, with two fingers I can do this:
-leave a finger on the mouse pad, and move another finger, and still be able to move the mouse
-two finger scrolling requires both fingers be moving
this is handy, as sometimes (because the trackpad is so large, I leave my thumb on the "button" (or any other fingers depending on how I'm sitting) for clicking, as clicking AND moving the cursor
i have started to try out some more from Ubuntu as dualboot on my laptop (Lenovo E530 with 640M). In Windows my touchpads gestures are working with three fingers to emulate back and forward (in a browser for example) which is awesome.
I'm running Ubuntu 11.10 on an HP Envy 14 installed with the Desktop CD. I'm also dual booting with Windows 7. This is only my second week using Linux and no other threads I've found online have solved my problem, so hopefully I can get some useful support here.
I have fixed my trackpad's crappy sensitivity using this and also this. While both of these problems are fixed, and the trackpad is much nicer now, there's one thing preventing me from calling it perfect. Trying to two finger click is horrendous now. Any time I try to place two fingers on the trackpad and click, it scrolls.
Hey,
I'm using the UX31 with the latest Ubuntu (12.10) and my elantech touchpad's multitouch supports seems to break after some unidentified event. I'm not going to sleep, just using the laptop and then, bam scrolling with two fingers no longer works, also mid/right click by finger tapping also.
I don't know what is causing this, it was happening in 12.04 as well, just less often.
Hello,
I have installed regular Ubuntu 9.10 on a Asus Eee PC 1000HE.
Concerning the touch-pad, the two fingers for scrolling works fine but the three fingers for right click does not. Does anyone know how to make it work?
Hi guys,
I'm using the Ubuntu NBR 9.10 RC on the Asus 1000HE and absolutely love it.
I have one gripe though. Previously when I would tap the touchpad with two fingers this would act like the middle button of a mouse being clicked (extremely handy opening new tabs in firefox, etc) and tapping with three fingers behaved like right-click.
I want to write a simple app that uses Apple's Magic Trackpad, nothing special, just so that it recognizes atleast one gesture. The thing is, Ubuntu itself doesnt really recognize this device.
I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 and by default the device works with 1 finger, but without tap-click or doubletap, 3 fingers move the window and 3 finger spread makes it fullscreen.
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