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Dimon-z

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Registered: 2008-06-22

Posts: 92

Vertical touchpad

Hello all
In my touchpad exists functionfor vertical scroll( eg firefox down\up  pages\ text editors\etc) in Windows worked, how to setting up vertical function in arch?

Last edited by Dimon-z (2009-04-17 10:27:07)

dobedo

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2008-10-04

Posts: 113

Re: Vertical touchpad

Is it a Synaptics one ? If so in /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Section "InputDevice"
        ...
      Option "VertEdgeScroll" "true"         #vertical scrolling when dragging along the right edge.
      Option "HorizEdgeScroll" "true"        #horizontal scrolling when dragging along the bottom edge.
        ...
EndSection

Last edited by dobedo (2009-04-17 10:38:42)

Dimon-z

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Registered: 2008-06-22

Posts: 92

Re: Vertical touchpad

i sloved with hal)add CircularScrolling option and all ok:)

decimal

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From: Greece

Registered: 2007-06-27

Posts: 43

Re: Vertical touchpad

For me it works when having two fingers on the touchpad, I like it better than the edge thingy.

Last edited by decimal (2009-04-17 11:34:06)

thisperishedmin

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Registered: 2008-11-04

Posts: 164

Re: Vertical touchpad

For me it works when having two fingers on the touchpad, I like it better than the edge thingy.

Is this a hardware dependent feature, or can this be configured through Xorg for any synaptics touch pad?

I'm assuming hardware dependent...but I'd love if I could mod xorg for the same result...

Thanks!

eldragon

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From: Buenos Aires

Registered: 2008-11-18

Posts: 1,029

Re: Vertical touchpad

hmm, my notebook isnt anything spectacular, its even below the entry level featurewise, and this circular scrolling works even if never wanted it....

i like edge scrolling better. (if the touchpad has an edge,  if it doesnt, circular)

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: Vertical touchpad

thisperishedmin - afaik all synaptics touchpads provide side scrolling, so you just have to set it up correctly. Read the synaptics wiki page.