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[ubuntu] Touchpad Scroll Gesture

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http://ubuntuforums.org – I have a keyboard with a built-in touchpad that I often use with my laptop, but while the laptop's built-in touchpad does support scrolling by stroking the right-hand edge of the touchpad, the touchpad on the external keyboard does not. Is there any way to add this functionality? Or better yet, is there any way to emulate the two-finger scrolling (vertical and horizontal) as on the Mac? (Hardware)

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Submitted by colm on 04/03/2012 – Made popular on 04/03/2012

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I have a Thinkpad which has both a TrackPoint mouse pointer (the little red thing between the G and H keys) and a Synaptics Touchpad.

I don't really like the Touchpad, and in fact keep swiping it accidentally, so I turned it off. But, there's one feature that's really nice: the two-finger scroll gesture.

Is there a way to make it so only this gesture works and all other input is ignored?

It is disabled (greyed out) in Mouse and Touchpad settings. Edge scrolling works though :) Tried many solutions available online but couldn't succeed.

My touchpad is

SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad

Please help.

Touchpad Two-Finger Scrolling 49 weeks 3 days ago

I'm using a Inspiron 1318 64-bit Dell laptop. It has a touchpad on it, but only edge scrolling works, on Ubuntu. Back when I used to use Windows, I had two-finger scrolling, but since I've switched to Ubuntu( about a year ago on 11.04) I've lost the ability to use it. If I go to the Mouse settings in the Settings menu, the option for two-finger scrolling is grayed out. Any ideas?

Well, this behaviour was always there for me. When scrolling fast and then releasing the touchpad scrolling would quickly decelerate. Now it decelerates really slowly... And not only with two finger scrolling but with scrolling at the edge of the touchpad too.That's a buggy default behaviour for me too.

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2012-04-19T08:46:28Z

I am using 12.04 on a macbook pro. Everything works really well. I want to disable 3 finger gestures. It is way to easy to accidentally drag/move a window(3 finger gesture) while scrolling(2 finger gesture) when using a touchpad.

I found this answer on ask ubuntu. It was marked answered but it is not. The functionality is still there.

The touchpad works just fine, but the multi-touch "feature" doesn't seem to be working on Ubuntu 9.10 RC. For example, in mouse options, there is a setting for two finger scrolling, but when I have that option enabled, I loose scrolling abilities completely. If I change the setting back to edge scrolling, it works fine; like any other touchpad would.

I have an Asus laptop running Linux that I leave running for several weeks at a time. I never put it in hibernate or suspend, I only close the lid when I'm not using it. After a few days or weeks of running, the touchpad and keyboard will Both lock up (at the same time) for no apparent reason.

When I move something with my laptop touchpad (e.g. a picture, window etc), the cursor keeps on moving when I reach to the edge of the touchpad. This has been bothering me since the first day I installed Linux. For example, I move something with my touchpad, then I stop because my finger has reached the end of my touchpad but the object keeps on moving to the same direction.

My girlfriend has a Samsung NC20 laptop/netbook(/whatever), running Ubuntu 10.10. When she attached a Dell monitor her laptop touchpad stopped working.