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[Patrick Valdellon <valworx@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Mike,

The touchpad is not capable of recognizing two fingers. It is possible
two emulate two-finger scrolling, though. But because it is an
emulation it's not perfect. It will trigger a two-finger event when
yoe use two fingers, or one big finger like the thumb sideways. I
don't know about your Desktop environment, I use KDE and configure my
mouse pad with the .fdi file I wrote about.

The settings necessary in
/usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/20thirdparty/11-x11-synaptics.fdi are:
<merge key="input.x11_options.VertTwoFingerScroll" type="string">1</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.HorizTwoFingerScroll"
type="string">1</merge> #scrolling sideways with two fingers
<merge key="input.x11_options.EmulateTwoFingerMinZ"
type="string">70</merge> #play around with "synclient -m10" to find a
value good for you
<merge key="input.x11_options.EmulateTwoFingerMinW"
type="string">0</merge> #This musst be 0 to work!

For more settings please read my previous mail.

br,
    Patrick

2009/12/30 Mike <michael.huettemann@xxxxxxxxx>:
> While talking about touchpad configuration. I never got the 2-finger
> scrolling to work on my Z31. Is that possible at all or are those
> option present for different hardware which is multitouch capable? I
> understand the Vaio touchpads cannot due this due to limitations of
> the hardware.
>
> 2009/12/28 Arnaldo Mandel <am@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>> On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 7:18 AM, Raphael Gradenwitz
>> <raphael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> (...)
>
>>> But don't you think this makes it unnecessary difficult since there are
>>> tools with nice graphical front ends to setup almost all of this
>>> settings on a per user basis activating its settings on the fly, without
>>> need to restart hal or X:
>
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