Eee PC multi-finger gestures

[dmyersturnbull]

I have an ASUS Eee PC 1005PE with a SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad touchpad. It supports multi-finger gestures, including (according to the manual) two-finger scrolling, three-finger scrolling, and two-finger zooming. How do I enable these features on F13 (Gnome)?

Thanks.

[marriedto51]

I don't know whether the specific capabilities you want to use are supported by the Synaptics driver, but have a look at

$ man synaptics

and see whether there are any options listed there that look relevant.

If you want to include any of those options, you can copy the default configuration file and edit it: first, do

$ su -c 'cp /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/20thirdparty/10-synaptics.fdi /etc/hal/fdi/policy/touchpad.fdi'

then edit your new touchpad.fdi with

$ su -c 'nano /etc/hal/fdi/policy/touchpad.fdi'

for example to include those options.

Each time you edit your fdi file, restart HAL with

$ su -c 'service haldaemon restart'

There could well be an easier way than all this, but that is what I have done in the past to alter properties like tap-to-click. In any case, I hope that gets you started.

[smr54]

Do they still have that default file? I think there's something in Gnome's settings that you can adjust, possibly system=>preferences (don't have Gnome, so not positive).

I know in the past I just made a little script

synclient TapButton1=1
synclient TapButton2=2
synclient TapButton3=3

saved it as something, then would run it when I started X. (I use fluxbox or openbox, though. Oddly enough, in Rawhide, this didn't work in OpenBox. However, the Fedora OpenBox menu had a section where I was able to configure the mouse through a GUI, which worked.)

[marriedto51]

Originally Posted by smr54

Do they still have that default file?

You're right: it is part of the fedora 12 package, but not the fedora 13 one. Sorry.

It looks like there is an easier way...

$ su -c 'yum install gpointing-device-settings'
$ gpointing-device-settings &