Ubuntu – Touchpad gestures don’t work on Dell XPS 15 L521x

12.10multi-touchtouchpadunity

I'm trying to get multi-touch gestures working on my Dell XPS 15. Two finger scrolling works but three or four finger gestures do not. I know that the touchpad is capable of multi-touch gestures because it works fine in Windows. I've tried several things already:

  • Installing touchegg from the repository
  • Installing touchegg from source
  • Installing Sputnik kernel and policykit updates from Sputnik PPAs

The first fails with a segmentation fault when run, the second gives errors during compile about missing files, and the third installed fine but nothing changed. Compilation errors can be seen here.

Best Answer

Try this solution.

Install xserver-xorg-input-multitouch and xserver-xorg-input-synaptics

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-input-multitouch
sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-input-synpatics

It has solved touchpad issues on other brand name laptops, don't know about Dell.

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