touchpad

linux how-to: two fingers scrolling on a regular synaptics notebook touchpad

Submitted by fabio on Thu, 2008-03-27 23:20.

One of the features I really love about Apple's notebooks is the two fingers scrolling enabled touchpad they have.

It's easier and faster to use than the regular side scrolling available on normal notebooks.

So.. I recently had a look at the synaptics documentation (synaptics is the driver which manages the touchpads under Linux).

Well.. After some reading and a bit of google searches it turns out that is possible to enable two fingers scrolling on recent synaptics touchpads even on normal/regular notebooks (not Apple Macbooks).