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bigla

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Registered: 2012-05-10

Posts: 2

Use touchpad only for scrolling & Synaptics conf reset [Thinkpad x220]

Greetings out to the community, great work you do out there, thank you all!

I got have two problems to solve:

1. I want to configure my   touchpad   to be a   pure (two-finger-)scrolling device   (no clicking, no mouse-movement should be made).
I want my trackpoint to control the mouse, and use the three buttons above the touchpad for interacting (Click, middle-click -> activates scrolling with trackpoint too, right click).
USB-Mice should be used "normally".

2. Is it possible to   reset all settings    from   synclient   and restore "standard"-settings in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-synaptics.conf, or reinitialize autoconfiguration of x?

Thank you in advance.

PS: I use xfce and slim.

teateawhy

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Registered: 2012-03-05

Posts: 1,138

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Re: Use touchpad only for scrolling & Synaptics conf reset [Thinkpad x220]

You have a thinkpad, so i suppose this might be useful for you:
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_co … rg.conf.29

Have a look a the site in general:
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkWiki

By the way try this:
    # echo -n 120 > /sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/serio2/speed
    # echo -n 200 > /sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/serio2/sensitivity
My trackpoint felt soo slow before...

Last edited by teateawhy (2012-05-10 17:00:57)

ANOKNUSA

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Registered: 2010-10-22

Posts: 2,141

Re: Use touchpad only for scrolling & Synaptics conf reset [Thinkpad x220]

I just wanna second teateawhy's recommendation.  You should be able to turn the touchpad off in the BIOS, and use just the trackpoint  and its buttons for mouse cursor control.  Middle-button scrolling works perfectly on my T520, and keeps me from having to move my fingers away from the home row.

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nblr

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Registered: 2012-11-01

Posts: 1

Re: Use touchpad only for scrolling & Synaptics conf reset [Thinkpad x220]

Here you are:

xinput set-int-prop "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" "Synaptics Edges" 32 0 0 0 0
xinput set-int-prop "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" "Synaptics Tap Action" 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
xinput set-int-prop "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" "Synaptics Edge Scrolling" 8 1 1 0