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camtram

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Registered: 2009-11-21

Posts: 2

Synaptic two finger horizontal scrolling

After getting hotplugging set up all the functions on my Macbook's touchpad (amazingly) work out of the box exactly as they do under OS X.  The one thing that doesn't work however, is two finger horizontal scrolling.  Vertical two finger scrolling works fine.

This is the line from the hal policy entry:
    <merge key="input.x11_options.HorizTwoFingerScroll" type="string">true</merge>

Any ideas?  Could it be something else entirely?

Thanks.

MadTux

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Registered: 2009-09-20

Posts: 553

Re: Synaptic two finger horizontal scrolling

According to the synaptics wiki, the hal file should look something like this:

<match key="info.product" contains="Synaptics TouchPad">
   ...
   <merge key="input.x11_options.VertTwoFingerScroll" type="string">1</merge>
   <merge key="input.x11_options.HorizTwoFingerScroll" type="string">1</merge>
   <merge key="input.x11_options.EmulateTwoFingerMinZ" type="string">120</merge>
   ...
</match>

So for hal you need numeric values instead of boolean. These are for xorg.conf.

See: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Tou … _scrolling