Ubuntu – How to make ubuntu support touchpad scrolling

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I have a dell (inspiron n5110) laptop and manual book said that i can scroll using two fingers on the touch-pad and scroll up, down, left, and right it workd in windows but that didn't happen in Ubuntu 11.10.how to make this enable ???

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Did you try to open "System Settings"

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and click on "Mouse and Touchpad", then select the "Touchpad" tab

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and there select "Two Finger scrolling" and possibly "Enable horizontal schrolling"?

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You can enable two-finger scrolling by forcing the scrolling setting:

gconftool-2 --set --type=int /desktop/gnome/peripherals/touchpad/scroll_method 2

If this doesn't work, try with the below script:

xinput --set-prop --type=int --format=32 "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" "Synaptics Two-Finger Pressure" 10

#   Below width 1 finger touch, above width simulate 2 finger touch. - value=pad-pixels
xinput --set-prop --type=int --format=32 "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" "Synaptics Two-Finger Width" 7        

#   vertical scrolling, horizontal scrolling - values: 0=disable 1=enable
xinput --set-prop --type=int --format=8  "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" "Synaptics Two-Finger Scrolling" 1 1   

#   vertical, horizontal, corner - values: 0=disable  1=enable
xinput --set-prop --type=int --format=8  "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" "Synaptics Edge Scrolling" 0 0 0       

#   stabilize 2 finger actions - value=pad-pixels
xinput --set-prop --type=int --format=32 "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" "Synaptics Jumpy Cursor Threshold" 120

I have added it to my startup applications. If it doesn't seem to work, try adding a sleep 10 at the top of the script.

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