Comment 57 for bug 308191
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| vitalic (kyliewilson) wrote Re: Multi fingers touch doesn't be correctly recognized | #57 |
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ive managed to get multi touch working, but its terrible. i cant believe how bad this is considering it worked flawlessly on windows. its taken me about 10 hours of tweaking to get it to a semi-satisfactory level when it took 1 minute to set up on xp.
there are jerky mouse movements when you leave one finger down after scrolling, sometimes it keeps scrolling after you stop moving your fingers, the two/three finger touch emulation doesnt work half of the time, sometimes you try and middle click and it thinks you are scrolling and moves half way down the page, sometimes you have to tap 3 or 4 times before it recognises it.
how hard can it be to get right? dont tell me "your netbook doesnt support multi touch", it DOES because when i first bought the thing i immediately tried to set up multitouch on xp and it worked perfectly (scrolling, middle clicking, right clicking) and as soon as i installed netbook remix it didnt work at all.
for the people still trying to get it working to some degree, this post will help: http://
the HAL stuff doesnt work any more so just run the script towards the end. personally i had to tweaks the values to get it working, my values were
xinput set-int-prop "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" "Synaptics Two-Finger Pressure" 32 11
xinput set-int-prop "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" "Synaptics Two-Finger Width" 32 5
xinput set-int-prop "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" "Synaptics Jumpy Cursor Threshold" 32 0
you can make this script run after login by adding it to /etc/gdm/
for people trying to set up two touch middle click, wow thats another thing that doesnt work out of the box and there is no way to change it because of a bug. what i did was make a script which executes "synclient TapButton2=2 TapButton3=3" and create an entry in startup applications so it runs after login, this makes three finger touch = right click and two finger touch = middle click the way it *should* be by default but the shitty developers of this mess decided otherwise
please sort this out because you are ruining my netbook experience