Comments on: How to gain more control over your synaptics touch pad in Ubuntu

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By: Amp up your touchpad « 0ddn1x: tricks with *nix

Amp up your touchpad « 0ddn1x: tricks with *nix — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 19:11:44 +0000

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By: OakMaster

OakMaster — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 14:43:35 +0000

I’m running Feisty on a Gateway M685-E laptop, and my touchpad needs some tweaking.

It is physically (with a slightly raised dividing line) divided into two sections: the main section for moving and clicking, and a narrow strip (~one-sixth of the overall width) on the right for vertical scrolling.

Under Ubuntu, it is functionally divided into those two sections as well… except that the functional dividing line is off, such that fully one-third of the overall width on the right triggers vertical scrolling.

If anyone has any tips on how to tweak the settings so that the vertical scrolling is confined to the narrower strip that matches the physical division of the touchpad, I would be most interested in hearing them…

By: Fr33d0m

Fr33d0m — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 12:54:18 +0000

I’ve been on Ubuntu full time since February and have installed several versions and I have to say that the touchpad is one issue that still drives me up a wall. It works but I wouldn’t put it in a class with Windows’ touchpad drivers. The ability to configure the pad, as well as the user interface are much better in Windows. The sensitivity adjustment doesn’t even seem to have much affect in Ubuntu. For some reason my finger always gets tired, it never did in Windows. I’m not sure why, or even what that means overall, but it is a data point I can feel.

By: corzair

corzair — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 09:29:04 +0000

ahah sorted problem via ubuntu forum. now ready to rock and scroll

thanks for the general notes though

By: corzair

corzair — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 08:57:20 +0000

new ubuntu user here . I have an acer tablet pc but when i installed I got no refs to touchpad in my xorg.conf file

the touchpad kinda works but not properly as seams to run as a standard mouse
the stylus on the pc is fine
can i just add input device line directly to the file ? to get up and running?

By: arsgeek

arsgeek — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 13:34:05 +0000

Touchpads ‘just work’ in Linux too. But if you want to enable multi-directional scrolling circular scrolling and fine tune the sensitivity, you’ve to to change some options.

Just like Macs or Windows.

By: cavtroop

cavtroop — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 13:31:58 +0000

you know, on Macs and in Windows, touchpads ‘just work’. Eat that, linux

By: arsgeek

arsgeek — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 12:39:24 +0000

Sure can! I fact, I covered this a little while ago.

http://www.arsgeek.com/?p=1862 should help you out.

By: Can some one tell me how to turn the pad off?

Can some one tell me how to turn the pad off? — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 02:00:35 +0000

Saw this on fsdaily.com. Can anyone tell me how to turn the pad and buttons off? I’ve got a machine set up for my son and when he types the pad keeps thinking his hand brushing over it means he wants to click. He uses a mouse anyway so it would be good to disable it all together.