
Larger positive values decrease the scroll speed.

The fastest natural direction scroll speed is 1. VertScrollDelta - Controls the speed and direction of vertical scrolling. While the formal definition of each parameter may be found in the synaptics manpage, here is a more user friendly description of each of the parameters: LeftEdge Where PARAMETER is as listed below, and # is a number. One would adjust parameters via a terminal: synclient PARAMETER=# This would allow one to adjust touchpad features that may not be exposed via the GUI.
#XINPUT TEST LINUX DRIVER#
Synclient is a commandline utility to query and modify Synaptics driver options. If nothing else works, please see the official Ubuntu touchpad debugging article.Ĭontrol touchpad features using synclient To fix this just run this command: gconftool-2 -set -type boolean /desktop/gnome/peripherals/touchpad/touchpad_enabled true This usually happens when you disable your touchpad and then suspend your computer. The synclient manpage will explain what the numbers you see onscreen mean. Now you should be able to see what kind of input your touchpad detects by running synclient -m 100 Paste this into the document: Section "InputClass"

However, since HAL hasn't been present in Ubuntu since 10.04, you will have to do it the other way - by editing nf. Online, the most commonly found procedure for doing this involves using HAL. Here's an example to switch on tapping and dragging:Įnabling SHMConfig in order to get synclient debug output

Use the trackpad command line tool to configure it. If one of the lines mentions an "ADB mouse", then your touchpad is old. If one of the lines mentions a touchpad or glidepoint (perhaps also "Synaptics" or "ALPS"), your touchpad has been detected. To check if a touchpad has been detected open a terminal and check the input device list given by this command: xinput list And the less sensitive the touchpad get.ĭetermine whether a touchpad has been detected The higher you set the numbers the more force is needed to make an event fire. The terminal running 'xinput -watch-props' should now display Property 'Synaptics Finger' changed. Set sensitivity: xinput -set-prop "Synaptics Finger" 50 80 257 It will change as soon as you apply the next command.) xinput -watch-props Open another terminal to see current settings: (Again this step can be omitted but is helpful to see available options. If text flies by as you move your mouse pointer using the touchpad, you know that you got the correct device number. This step is not mandatory but it can help to track problems: xinput -test It will probably be one of the devices under "Virtual core pointer". Replace with the number of your touchpad from 'xinput list'. Open a separate terminal to watch emitted events: You may run the command during session startupĭetermine device number (see above) xinput list

