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neoanima

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Registered: 2008-05-08

Posts: 40

no options for touchpad in mouse setting UI

two days ago, i upgraded my system. i use arch x86 with xfce4.8. 
my touchpad does not work well. there are only right-click and cursor-move, the other functions i configured are lost. at first, i thought it was a defect in the driver.
when i opened the mouse settings, there is only usb-mouse settings in the device tab. i remember it had a synaptics option before upgrading. so i realise that all settings on usb-mouse are applied to synatics touchpad.  my usb-mouse is set to left hand mode. and touchpas is default right-hand mode. so there must be a confict in configurations.

so what i ask is how can i get back the synaptics option in mouse settings ?

thk!

neoanima

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Registered: 2008-05-08

Posts: 40

Re: no options for touchpad in mouse setting UI

Oops! no one can solve this problem.

stqn

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Registered: 2010-03-19

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Re: no options for touchpad in mouse setting UI

This will probably not help you, but just in case... I had a problem with mouse acceleration that suddenly didn't work after the last update. This was because libnotify had been updated but I was still using Xfce 4.6 which apparently needed the old libnotify. After removing every blocked package from pacman.conf and updating, mouse acceleration worked again.

neoanima

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Registered: 2008-05-08

Posts: 40

Re: no options for touchpad in mouse setting UI

@stqn, thanks.
but i don't block any package in pacman.conf.

Shark

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From: /dev/zero

Registered: 2011-02-28

Posts: 686

Re: no options for touchpad in mouse setting UI

Good start is wiki:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Touchpad_Synaptics

I use XFCE4 too and i find "xinput" tool really helpful. Type:

xinput list

to see which touchpad is yours (if it will be recognized). Mine is "ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad ". Now type:

xinput --list-props "name of your touchpad"

and you will see a list of proeprties you can tweak for you touchpad.
You can tweak it as follows:

xinput --set-prop 'name of your touchpad' 'some property'

Last edited by Shark (2011-08-24 11:35:46)

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Demon

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From: Republic of Srpska, BA

Registered: 2008-03-02

Posts: 246

Re: no options for touchpad in mouse setting UI

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