Cannot alter settings, no drag n drop or horizontal scrolling, mouse jumpy.

[joseexposito]

Cannot alter settings, no drag n drop or horizontal scrolling, mouse jumpy.

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Hi

I guess that before install Touchégg you've followed this instructions:
http://code.google.com/p/touchegg/wiki/ConfigureDevices

The first step, after change your driver, is check what gestures are compatible 
with your trackpad. Try to run Touchégg from a terminal ($touchegg), make 
gestures and the suported gestures should appear.
Then, you can use the GUI to configure this gestures and their actions. 
Remember that you need to run Touchégg to get these funcionallity, you can add 
it to autostart programs ;)

Drag&Drop is not avaliable in this version, but it works ok in the next version 
(Ubuntu 11.04), that will use Synaptics driver... And yes, you can change the 
mouse speed:
http://jasonxh.blogspot.com/2008/02/slow-down-your-evdev-mouse.html

If you have problem, or don't like the result an advice, try Touchégg in 
Ubuntu 11.04 when it coming, the new multitouch support is awesome ;)
If you want to remove it, only remove the touchegg and touchegg-gui packages 
from sofware center, and change again the driver to evdev 
(http://code.google.com/p/touchegg/wiki/ConfigureDevices)

Greetings!

Original comment by [email protected] on 26 Mar 2011 at 9:06

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[GoogleCodeExporter]

Maybe I would try it for 11.04, but for now it is making daily tasks difficult 
and cumbersome. The thing is my trackpad supports almost none of the gestures, 
so there isn't really a point for me to run touchegg at all. I did manage to 
change the settings via configuration file (before I was editing the wrong 
one). However, the gui still is completely nonfunctional for me. Also it is  
not the mouse speed I was having trouble with. I was already able to change 
that if I wanted to. It's just the way it makes the mouse move is very bad and 
hard to use. I already tried removing touchegg and touchegg-gui packages from 
software center before even raising this issue. After removing them I lose all 
touchpad capabilities completely. What do you mean by "change again the driver 
to evdev"? I'm pretty sure that evdev is what's causing all my problems. I want 
to go back to using the drivers I was using before, but I don't know how.

Original comment by [email protected] on 26 Mar 2011 at 9:45

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I'm sorry, you need to use synaptics driver, not evdev.

You only need to undo the steps that you followed to use evdev driver, for 
example if you've copied your synaptics configuration to /etc/X11/xorg.conf you 
only need delete it (the added configuration, NOT the file!)

Original comment by [email protected] on 26 Mar 2011 at 9:56

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Here's the thing. All I did was install the debs for touchegg and touchegg-gui. 
I can't undo the steps I followed to use evdev because I never even did them in 
the first place. I didn't copy any configurations or anything of the sort. Only 
installed a couple of debs.

Original comment by [email protected] on 26 Mar 2011 at 10:21

[GoogleCodeExporter]

In that case:
a) If you are using synaptics driver, Touchégg shouldn't work. Install 
Touchégg don't make any change in configuration. You could make gestures 
before install it?
b) Remove the packages (or not simply, not run touchegg) will fix the problem. 
$ killall -9 touchegg

Original comment by [email protected] on 26 Mar 2011 at 10:44

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I don't have a synaptics touchpad so I don't imagine that I have a synaptics 
driver. Mine is elantech. Touchegg definitely works. As I said before the show 
desktop gesture is there. Before I ever installed touchegg I had two-three 
finger taps and two finger scrolling. If I kill touchegg none of those gestures 
are working anymore. If I remove the packages they also don't work.

Original comment by [email protected] on 26 Mar 2011 at 11:05

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I'm lost hahaha. Touchégg works fine, ok, but you want to unistall it, is it? 
Where is the problem?

Only remove the packages, and if you had made any change in your configuration 
undo it and restart your computer. All should work like before install 
Touchégg.
> Install Touchégg don't make any change in configuration

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

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Here's exactly what has happened to me:

My laptop has a touchpad. It works fine, no problems. I read an article about 
touchegg, decide to try it out. I install it. I decide touchegg isn't for me 
and uninstall it. After uninstalling it, my touchpad doesn't work anymore. 

The problem is that when I remove touchegg, things don't work like they used 
to. In fact, they aren't working at all. I'm as lost as anybody here. As much 
as I dread it, its starting to look like the only solution for me is to 
completely re-install ubuntu, just to fix a stupid touchpad. I've been all over 
the internet for weeks trying to fix this before I came here and I haven't made 
even the tiniest step of progress. Apparently no one can help me. I'm about 
ready to throw my laptop against the wall.

Original comment by [email protected] on 26 Mar 2011 at 11:42

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Ok, don't worry. I'm realy puzzled, it's to strange, as I say you, Touchégg 
don't make any change in your computer, only install a binary file (in 
/usr/bin) and a configuration file (in /usr/share/touchegg) and, of course, 
unistall the package removes this files.

Reinstall Ubuntu isn't a option, I'm sure that we can fix it ;)

Touchég package have dependencies, try to run this command:
$ sudo apt-get autoremove --purge

It should unistall all unused packages. Are you using uTouch for something? If 
you aren't usign it try to unistall it:
$ sudo apt-get remove utouch --purge

That is all I can thing to try to solve the problem. Try this and restart, if 
you have problems say me, and we will try to fix it...

Original comment by [email protected] on 27 Mar 2011 at 12:15

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Yeah. Sorry if I started to sound a little desparate back there, but I kind of 
am! haha. I'm sure you're right that it isn't directly as a result of touchegg 
itself. I probably did something along the way that caused this issue. Like I 
said, I've been at this for a while now. The only real things I've tried so far 
though are installing and removing a few packages. I remember utouch coming up 
before in a search result. I already removed it a few days ago. I'll try 
autoremove later when I get back home. Thanks for all your help by the way. 
I'll let you know what happens.

Original comment by [email protected] on 27 Mar 2011 at 12:48

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So anyways I've rebooted and that seemed to do the trick. It's amazing how 
simple the solution is sometimes. Thanks for being patient with me! :)

Original comment by [email protected] on 27 Mar 2011 at 5:15

[GoogleCodeExporter]

You are welcome, and apologies for the problems that may have caused Touchégg 
;)

Original comment by [email protected] on 27 Mar 2011 at 1:50

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