Touchegg does not work with a Synaptics touch pad

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Touchegg does not work with a Synaptics touch pad

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Try installing Henrik Rydberg's synaptics-dkms package to get multitouch 
support for the synaptics touchpad into your kernel.  You can find it for 
Ubuntu on launchpad at <https://launchpad.net/~utouch-team/+archive/utouch> 
(follow instruction on that page for installation).

Original comment by [email protected] on 25 Jan 2011 at 7:06

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Remember that you must use evdev driver, not synaptics driver to work with 
Touchégg, for example, this is my /etc/X11/xorg.conf

  [...]
  # Apple Magic Trackpad
  Section "InputClass"
      Identifier "Magic Trackpad"
      MatchUSBID "05ac:030e"
      Driver "evdev"
  EndSection
  [...]

Yours will be diferent, but will have the Driver "evdev" line. Change your 
InputClass section and restart X.

Greetings!

Original comment by [email protected] on 25 Jan 2011 at 7:17

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> Perhaps this still isn't an implemented function but I think
> both me and plenty of others would love to see it happen. 
> Together with compiz it would bring out the mac in ubuntu! :D

I'm working in a "SendKeys" action that allowing active easily the compiz or 
kwin effects ;) And in the future EggWM (https://code.google.com/p/eggwm/) 
effects

Original comment by [email protected] on 25 Jan 2011 at 7:22

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I have managed to get it to work, sorta :P

I used the ppa but I wonder if that was really nessecary. In addition I 
modified the X org config. Note that for 10.10 it exists elsewhere:

sudo gedit /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf

I changed the synaptics driver to evdev and rebooted. Then started touchegg 
which did the trick. However, the touchpad became extremely jumpy. Also four 
finger gestures are too much on a smaller synaptics touchpad.

The full set of gestures might be comfortable to work with on a magic track 
pad. For synaptics I think it might be better reduced to two/three finger 
up/down and tap motions. My pad isn't big enough for a four finger gesture and 
I have small hands.

Thinking out loud:

2 finger is scrolling
3 finger up/down would be window expose
3 finger down when not in expose gives the desktop
maybe 2 finger swipe could be desktop switching

2 finger tap for maximize/unmaximize
3 finger tap for right click (i hardly ever use right clicks)

I'll play around a bit with the config settigns in both ubuntu and touchegg to 
see if I can get it to be more 'stable' in use.

Original comment by [email protected] on 25 Jan 2011 at 8:22

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Yes, the mouse speed is a problem using small touchpads or smalls screens, I 
will try to fix it.

To configure your own gestures do that:

$ mkdir $HOME/.touchegg
$ cp /usr/share/touchegg/touchegg.conf $HOME/.touchegg/touchegg.conf
$ gedit $HOME/.touchegg/touchegg.conf

Edit the actions and configure your own gestures.

Sorry, I need to put all information in the wiki, but I haven't got time!

Original comment by [email protected] on 25 Jan 2011 at 8:39

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PS - Please mark issues as "Done" if are solved ;)

Original comment by [email protected] on 25 Jan 2011 at 8:41

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To change mouse speed:
http://jasonxh.blogspot.com/2008/02/slow-down-your-evdev-mouse.html

Bye!

Original comment by [email protected] on 25 Jan 2011 at 11:02

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Done :) No idea on how to change the status of this issue in google :P

P.S. In order to cut down your effort on documenting you could just add some 
references to these issues on your main page?

Original comment by [email protected] on 26 Jan 2011 at 9:28

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Please, check this:
http://code.google.com/p/touchegg/wiki/ConfigurationDevices

If you can, please, copy here your configuration or more issues that you 
consider important to run Touchégg in your PC.

Original comment by [email protected] on 26 Jan 2011 at 11:02

• Changed state: Done