Fedora 10 - Two Finger Scroll?

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  1. hwarfnugen

    hwarfnugen

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    Hi Everyone,

    I've been trying to get the two finger scroll working on my new A110 and haven't had any luck. Perhaps it's not possible? Below is my xorg.conf's input device section. I've tried a few different variations and still have came up empty handed. Has anyone else gotten this to work? Coming from a Macbook this is the one feature I'm missing the most.

    Thanks

    Code:
    Section "InputDevice"
            Identifier      "Mouse0"
            Driver          "synaptics"
            Option          "SendCoreEvents"        "true"
            Option          "Protocol"              "auto-dev"
            Option          "Device"                "/dev/input/mice"
            Option          "MaxTapTime"            "120"
            Option          "MaxTapMove"            "150"
            Option          "VertTwoFingerScroll"   "true"
            Option          "HorizTwoFingerScroll"  "true"
            Option          "VertEdgeScroll"        "false"
            Option          "HorizEdgeScroll"       "false"
            Option          "TapButton1"            "1"
            Option          "TapButton2"            "3"
            Option          "TapButton3"            "2"
            Option          "Emulate3Buttons"       "true"
            Option          "SHMConfig"             "true"
    EndSection
    
     
    hwarfnugen, Jan 11, 2009
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    first set up gsynaptics the preferred way for F10

    http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=206814

    then when you have followed all those steps do

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    synclient VertTwoFingerScroll=1 ; synclient HorizTwoFingerScroll=1 
    
    then
    Code:
    synclient -l
    
    too see if your changes have taken :)
     
    HappyHarry, Jan 11, 2009
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    poesje

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    I've also been trying to activate the two fingerscoll a few days ago, but didn't get it working. I also tried this method, only then via HAL and now with command line, but neither methods seemed to work for me.
     
    poesje, Jan 11, 2009
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    Thanks HappyHarry. However, I still cannot get it to work either. I tried it with and without the xorg.conf file. When I run synclient -l I do see that two finger scrolling is active, but no such luck. This may be a dumb question, but does gsynaptics only work in Gnome? I'm running XFCE.

    Oh well, I'll keep plugging away.
     
    hwarfnugen, Jan 12, 2009
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    Well, as it turns out the HAL way described does work. I just found that it seems to be really flaky. Maybe once out of every 10 tries does it recognize my two finger scroll attempt. However, circular scrolling does work quite well and I think I'm just going to leave that enabled.

    Thanks for the help.
     
    hwarfnugen, Jan 12, 2009
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    no probs, gsynaptics works in xfce too as that's what i'm using, you could try turning off HorizEdgeScroll and VertEdgeScroll by using

    Code:
    synclient HorizEdgeScroll 0 ; VertEdgeScroll 0
    
    and see if that makes a difference to the two finger scrolling?
     
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