Touchpad zoom function

orschiro · 2011-04-24 12:44:42

Hello guys,

I've seen on my friend's Medion Notebook with Windows 7 that he is able to zoom in and out with his synaptics touchpad.

Is this hardware related or can I have this feature with my Thinkpad SL500 as well?

Regards

twilightning · 2011-04-26 14:44:58

Think yes, if its properly configured. Right now I have my 7 years old laptop with the ability of scrolling with two fingers. I think its an Xorg thing.

orschiro · 2011-04-26 15:41:31

What do you mean by scrolling with two fingers?

twilightning · 2011-04-26 15:47:09

I put my fingers next to each other on the touchpad and I can scroll this page instead of moving the cursor.

orschiro · 2011-04-26 16:13:57

Hey nice, haven't known about this feature. I followed this guide to enable it as well and it's pretty nice.

http://mixeduperic.com/linux/ubuntu-100 … h-pad.html

Would love to have some equivalent for the zoom.

Regards

twilightning · 2011-04-26 19:18:44

Mine was out of the box, didnt need any special configuration. But I think the only way to do this is by enabling a Composite manager like compiz and then bind it somehow with this gesture.

orschiro · 2011-04-26 21:53:21

Surely? Why shouldn't there be any synclient configuration?

twilightning · 2011-04-27 11:35:22

I dont know, maybe its a KDE out-of-the-box thing... and maybe there is some configuration out there.

csslayer · 2011-04-27 14:04:49

AUR's kcm_touchpad may help you via GUI, but you need to make sure that your touchpad is recognized as synaptics and works will.

orschiro · 2011-04-28 05:55:44

Thanks but I'd like to have a kde-independent solution for my Gnome desktop.

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Touchpad zoom function

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