SOLVED Fedora 10, gnome, circular scrolling on touchpad

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  1. jw-phx

    jw-phx

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    has anyone been able to get circular scrolling on the touchpad to work? I've set up my xorg.conf same as in my F9 settings on my Thinkpad T60...

    Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier "Touchpad"
    Driver "synaptics"
    Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
    Option "Emulate3Butons" "yes"
    Option "SHMConfig" "on"
    EndSection

    I've used gsynaptics to turn on circular scrolling (confirmed with synclient -l) and it's not working... and I've tried various trigger areas, too. Vertical and horizontal scrolling works OK, tap/click works OK.

    Any suggestions?
     
    jw-phx, Jan 3, 2009
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    Well, I was able to resolve this myself... probably the most straight forward way... but was distracted by past experiences.

    Added the following to the xorg.conf section for the touchpad:

    Options "CircularScrolling" "yes"
    Options "CircScrollTrigger" "3"


    At the Fedora 9 level, these appeared to be ignored in xorg.conf so I used other methods to set via synclient commands when I logged on. With F10, it picks them up from xorg.conf without problems, which is much better.
     
    jw-phx, Jan 3, 2009
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