Scrolling with touchpad annoyance

Hi everyone, first post here. Got Ubuntu running well according to the sticky in this forum as well as the guide on ubuntu.com. Everything is working fine but I have a minor annoyance. Is anybody's "scroll area" on their touchpad not on the further most edge on the right?
i.e.
"i" is the vertical scroll area
The aspire's is as follows:
left edge --->|______i__|<---- right edge
but I'd like it to be more like:
left edge --->|________i|<---- right edge

Does this make sense?

Other than this, I'm very pleased with the Aspire One!

 

I'm certain the settings could be adjusting by setting edge coordinates in the synaptic section of the xorg file...however...I believe the scrolling is offset to create a "dead space" between the mouse key and the trackpad. Try using the pad from the left key inward...there's a dead space there as well which I think is in place to help the user click more accurately. Without it you would click and possibly move the mouse while doing so.

 

Yes, very annoying. I had to turn vertical scrolling for the touchpad off.

 

I put a small dab of liquid paper on my touchpad at the point where vertical scrolling works. It allows me to find the right point quickly and easily without looking down.

Allan

 

Thanks guys, I'll try a few of the things mentioned here, see if it helps.

On a semi-related note, does anybody know how to turn off desktop switching in compiz with the scroll wheel? Whenever my focus is the desktop and I scroll by accident, it switches desktops. :evil:

 

Open synaptic package manager and install compizconfig-settings-manager...the program should install to Menu-System-Appearance and the setting will be in there somewhere (I obviously don't have my ubuntu system sitting right in front of me otherwise my answer would be more consise)

 

I'm using circular scrolling to scroll up and down. This way of scrolling is very convenient. I'm not sure how I did it or if it worked by default, you should google it.

The circular scrolling works like this. Imagine this is the touch pad:

Code:

o o o
o o x
o o o

Start out with your finger on the x and make a circular movement. Good luck

-- Edit --
This was in my /etc/X11/xorg.conf, but not all options are necessary. I tried getting multitouch to work (but it didn't work):

Code:

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier	"Synaptics Touchpad"
	Driver		"synaptics"
	Option		"SendCoreEvents"	"true"
	Option		"Device"		"/dev/psaux"
	Option		"Protocol"		"auto-dev"
	Option		"HorizEdgeScroll"	"0"
	#Option "HorizEdgeScroll" "on"
	Option "VertEdgeScroll" "on"
	Option "VertTwoFingerScroll" "on"
	#Option "HorizTwoFingerScroll" "on"
	Option "CornerCoasting" "on"
	Option "PalmDetect" "on"
	Option "CircularScrolling" "on"
	Option "CircScrollTrigger" "3"
	Option "SHMConfig" "on"
EndSection