Ubuntu – Two finger scrolling on asus Zenbook ux303ln

scrollingtouchpad

After installing ubuntu on this machine I cannot two-finger/side scroll is there a way of simply mending this?
I have already tried the settings.

If this command

dmesg | grep pnp

gives output of FLT0101, FLT0102, or FLT0103, you have a Focaltech touchpad.

If you have Ubuntu 15.04, then install touchpad driver

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:hanipouspilot/focaltech-dkms
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install focaltech-dkms

Touchpad will work normally after reboot.

This will also work for Ubuntu 14.04, but will pull 3.19 kernel.

UPDATE: These touchpads are now supported by the 4.2 kernels. The kernel can be installed by

sudo apt-get install linux-generic-lts-wily

The Focaltech driver from the PPA should be removed.

Create a file with the commands in mikewhatever answer:

echo synclient VertEdgeScroll=1 >> ~/.config/scroll-touchpad
echo synclient VertTwoFingerScroll=1 >> ~/.config/scroll-touchpad

We make it executable, and protect it from being deleted:

chmod +x ~/.config/scroll-touchpad
chmod -w ~/.config/scroll-touchpad

The we add to our gconf settings this file:

gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.input-devices hotplug-command '"'$HOME'/.config/scroll-touchpad"'

Now you can restart Gnome, log out and in, etc. and your preferences will persist.

According with this answer, you can enable both two finger scrolling and edge scrolling using the following commands in terminal:

synclient VertEdgeScroll=1
synclient VertTwoFingerScroll=1

The problem is that these commands are not persistent after a system restart. To prevent this, let's put them to run at start up.

First, make a new small bash script called scrolling with the following code inside:

#!/bin/bash

synclient VertEdgeScroll=1
synclient VertTwoFingerScroll=1

Save it in your ~/bin directory, and don't forget to make it executable using the following command in terminal:

chmod +x ~/bin/scrolling

Second, search for Startup Applications in Dash, and open it:

startup applications

Then add the script scrolling to run at startup:

startup applications