Synaptics TouchPad driver for X
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Synaptics TouchPad driver for X.Org/XFree86
This is a driver for all synaptics touchpads for X.Org/Xfree86 4.x. The driver is not written portably; it will not work on operating systems other than Linux and FreeBSD (by ports).
Features
- Movement with adjustable, non-linear acceleration and speed
- Button events through short touching of the touchpad
- Dragging through short touching and holding down the finger on the touchpad
- Middle and right button events on the upper and lower corner of the touchpad
- Vertical scrolling (button four and five events) through moving the finger on the right side of the touchpad
- Horizontal scrolling (button six and seven events) through moving the finger on the lower side of the touchpad
- Adjustable finger detection
Configuring under X.Org
Some common options under X.Org
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Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
# Option "TouchpadOff" "1" #Uncomment if you just want to disable the touchpad and use only the trackpoint
# Option "HorizScrollDelta" "0" #Why is this in here by default. By Gods, it kill horizontal scrolling!
Option "RightEdge" "5500" #This is a little bigger than the default narrowing the scroll region
Option "BottomEdge" "4500" #This is a little bigger than the default narrowing the scroll region
Option "RTCornerButton" "0" #disable Right Top corner "button"
Option "RBCornerButton" "0" #disable Right Bottom corner "button"
Option "SHMConfig" "on" #this allows configuration of the touchpad using qsynaptics, synclient, or what have you.
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To configure the touchpad on the fly, ksynaptics can be found under the KDE control panel. For Gnome users there is gsynaptics. And for those who prefer to remain non-partisan, there's also qsynaptics. They all provide a GUI way to control driver settings such as circular scrolling and tap to click.
For the console or scripting uses there is synclient.
