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uncholowapo

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From: US

Registered: 2009-03-29

Posts: 238

Synaptics Touchpad and GNOME 2.28

Well when I updated not too long ago, I rebooted and came to find that my tapping ability had gone away. In GDM tapping is enabled but when I log in, it goes away. I have tapping hardcoded into the policy file in /etc/hal/fdi/policy along with horizontal scrolling as well which doesn't work either.

When I enabled SHMConfig in the policy file, I ran:

synclient -l

To list the available options for my touchpad and found that niether tapping nor scrolling horizontally had a number or bool. TapButton1,2, and 3 just had a 0 next to it as did HorizEdgeScroll.

Enabling via:

synclient TapButton{1,2,3}={1,2,3}

works but I find that too much to do every boot up.

Please help

EDIT: A bit off topic but now I have to enter my password every time I log in to change my CPU frequency using the cpufreq-applet.

Last edited by uncholowapo (2009-10-13 02:24:54)

hokum83

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From: Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia

Registered: 2008-09-25

Posts: 6

Re: Synaptics Touchpad and GNOME 2.28

You need to chage settings in in mouse options System > Preferences > Mouse > Touchpad tab

uncholowapo

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From: US

Registered: 2009-03-29

Posts: 238

Re: Synaptics Touchpad and GNOME 2.28

Wow, that helped. Thanks, I feel like an idiot for not looking at that.

martusia

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Registered: 2009-10-17

Posts: 10

Re: Synaptics Touchpad and GNOME 2.28

Hey!
I'm bit of a newbie with Arch, as this is my first time I need to fix anything (God bless those are the problem with unstable GNOME, it gives me hope it won't be that worse next time) but I think I have problems with Synaptics.
I have already fixed the problem with tapping (as it was all about finding this topic) but I cannot make TS work through config. Neither double-finger scrolling nor double-finger tap works for me, even if I have .fdi file in HAL policy and even if I tick the two-finger scrolling option in GUI. Anybody can help me?

palinux

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Registered: 2009-09-15

Posts: 21

Re: Synaptics Touchpad and GNOME 2.28

hey, i've had the same issue.. but then i look into
menu , system , preferences , mouse , and click on the touchpad tab

then i've marked the option related to this problem
after that, the touchpad didn't give any other trouble

greetings

Last edited by palinux (2009-10-19 12:32:10)

rsambuca

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From: Calgary, Canada

Registered: 2008-07-21

Posts: 143

Re: Synaptics Touchpad and GNOME 2.28

I have everything working except for the double-finger tap for a middle mouse click.  Really annoying feature to lose.

Svenstaro

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From: Germany

Registered: 2008-11-19

Posts: 388

Re: Synaptics Touchpad and GNOME 2.28

I added this info to the wiki in the troubleshooting section for Touchpads: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Tou … leshooting

Can you guys add any info? For example, can one disable this behavior in Gnome 2.28? Can you somehow enable both edge-scrolling and two-finger-scrolling?

irnn

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Registered: 2008-08-31

Posts: 10

Re: Synaptics Touchpad and GNOME 2.28

In order to re-enable multi touch just open up gconf-editor and navigate to

desktop/gnome/peripherals/touchpad

Change the value of scroll_method to 2.

Tada

emphire

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From: Canada

Registered: 2007-03-21

Posts: 203

Re: Synaptics Touchpad and GNOME 2.28

Is 3-finger clicking working for anyone in gnome?  Everything else is working for me since I changed the settings in gconf.  I'm wondering if gnome is preventing 3-finger clicks from working or if I should be looking elsewhere for the cause.