Activate Two Finger Scrolling

wdfgea · 2015-09-14 18:16:47

Hey there,

i am using xubuntu for the first time. everything works out and if not i found a workaround. but what did not work out so far was the two finger scrolling on my touchpad. surprisingly, the touchpad is not recognised as a touchpad but tapping works and also its mouse function. but not two finger scrolling. it has been recognized as a "PS/2 logitech wheel mouse". indeed, it is not a "PS/2 logitech wheel mouse". xfce seems to detect the wrong hardware.

i tried to edit the synaptics-50.conf file to force two finger scrolling. but i was not allowed to save a file with my personal changes in that directory. i checked mouse settings but there is no tab "touchpad". in fact, this is not surprising.

my questions:

- can i force xfce to detect the right hardware?
- can i make it work without a detection of the right hardware?

thanks

ToZ · 2015-09-14 19:17:25

Hello and welcome.

xfce seems to detect the wrong hardware.

Xfce doesn't do any sort of mouse/trackpad detection, that is done by Xorg. Xfce will use whatever devices are recognized.

What does the following commands return:

dmesg | grep -i touchpad

xinput list

xfconf-query -c pointers -lv

Also, what is the make and model of your computing device?

MountainDewManiac · 2015-09-14 20:36:53

wdfgea wrote:

i tried to edit the synaptics-50.conf file to force two finger scrolling. but i was not allowed to save a file with my personal changes in that directory.

Try:

gksu gedit synaptics-50.conf

after you've opened a terminal in the correct directory. If using a text editor other than gedit, you'd have to adjust the command accordingly, of course. And remember not to screw something up when you're operating with administrator privileges, lol.

Regards,
MDM

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