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Topic: Multitouch side-scrolling on #!

I can go perfectly up and down by swiping my hand but I'd like to have side scrolling from left to right as well.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

P.S. Using Statler Alpha 1 btw

  • From: Cambridge, MA, US
  • Registered: 2010-05-13
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Re: Multitouch side-scrolling on #!

If you have a synaptics trackpad, the "synclient" command controls this behavior.  The man pages for "synclient" and "synaptics" have everything you need, but the main boolean parameters for turning on/off vertical, horizontal, and circular scrolling are below.  These are my settings, in which I turn-off regular scrolling (since I can't stand the pointer jumping all over the place when I accidentally hit the side of the trackpad) and only enable two-finger scrolling:
$ synclient HorizEdgeScroll=0
$ synclient VertEdgeScroll=0
$ synclient HorizTwoFingerScroll=1
$ synclient VertTwoFingerScroll=1
$ synclient CircularScrolling=1

There are other parameters too, for tweaking nuances in behavior.  Note that there are already a couple synclient commands in the "~/.config/xfce4/autostart.sh" file (and probably "~/.config/openbox/autostart.sh" too, if you use OpenBox, but I don't have an install to check) so you'd want to look at those, and change/add whatever synclient commands you need in there, so it sets them upon each login.

Thanks,

michael