Comment 126 for bug 308191

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Ă˜sse (oystwa) wrote :

Thanks so much for this package! This is huge! My report:

Prior to all this I haven't done anything deviating from a default 10.10 installation with anything related to the touchpad. I installed the synaptic-dkms package for the utouch PPA about 14 hours ago.

After reboot I was able to select two-finger scrolling from System -> Preferences -> Mouse -> Touchpad. Brilliant!! As you all probably know this is usually greyed out. Without me doing anything, a two-finger tap translates to a right click. Excellent!

Running "xinput list-props" on my touchpad gives me "Synaptics Capabilities (320): 1, 0, 1, 1, 1" indicating three-finger tap support. This was previously "1, 0, 1, 0, 0" indicating no multi-finger support. As "xev" indicates, a three-finger tap is not recognized. I have also tried changing the action with the "Synaptics Tap Action (307)" property with no effect.

It seems to me the synaptics driver has (in principle) three-finger tap support, since it lists that as a possible capability. By the same token, it seems to me the synaptics driver does not have three-finger swipe/scroll support. Am I correct in this?

Again, thanks!