Oddly enough, two-fingered scrolling can be enabled in Gnome from the command line, but not from the GUI. Run the following command:
gconftool-2 --set /desktop/gnome/peripherals/touchpad/scroll_method 2 --type int
This will enable two-fingered scrolling. The appropriate radio button will be shown selected in gnome-mouse-properties, but it will still be disabled.
Oddly enough, two-fingered scrolling can be enabled in Gnome from the command line, but not from the GUI. Run the following command:
gconftool-2 --set /desktop/ gnome/periphera ls/touchpad/ scroll_ method 2 --type int
This will enable two-fingered scrolling. The appropriate radio button will be shown selected in gnome-mouse- properties, but it will still be disabled.