Lubuntu Screencast: Configure Touchpad

In this screencast I show you how to configure your touchpad with the console based application synclient and the graphical application gpointing-device-settings. 

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touchpad
synaptics
gsynaptics
gpointing-device-settings

Comments

Submitted by Kevin George on Tue, 03/15/2011 - 01:26
Thanks, LL!

Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 03/21/2011 - 02:25
This is great, but whenever I reboot, all of the options are reset to their defaults. I don't really want to have to change the settings back every single time I login.

Submitted by Leszek Lesner on Wed, 03/23/2011 - 11:09

The problem here is that gpointing-device-settings is writting its settings to a gconf xml file which will be only read when starting the gnome-settings-daemon. 
There is (or was) another way to set the touchpad settings with hal settings, but I don't think that this will work on a modern lubuntu system. Try it for yourself: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-hardware-18/gpointing-device-settings-settings-will-not-stay-after-reboot-762801/

 

Submitted by Mguel on Wed, 03/23/2011 - 22:10
Settings don't stick after reboot... bad thing and pretty useless if what you configure doesn't stay the way you configured it :/

Submitted by Mguel on Wed, 03/23/2011 - 22:16
One solution is to add the synclient command to the autorun.sh script, ie in my case I added: # synclient enable circular scroll from top right synclient CircularScrolling=1 synclient CircScrollTrigger=3

Submitted by bg on Mon, 04/04/2011 - 16:59
lubuntu scroll fix: Look in /etc/xdg/lxsession/Lubuntu/autostart and put whatever initialization commands you want to run when you log in at the top. You should just be able to put your "synclient" command there, if it is doing what you need. Be sure to leave the "@" off because this asks lxsession to restart the command if it exits. For example, to disable (annoying) vertical scrolling: synclient vertedgescroll=0

Submitted by Paul on Wed, 05/11/2011 - 13:11
I tried that but it won't let me save the autostart file. I even tried renaming it but it won't let me do that either. How can I edit and save it? Thanks.

Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 07/03/2011 - 19:50
Must run filemanager (or text editor) as root (sudo...)

Submitted by 4nthony on Mon, 04/29/2013 - 15:25
Editing this file worked for me, for syndaemon (also for touchpad settings) commands too. However, I did use the @. Everything seems to have worked out ok

Submitted by yk4ever on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 21:13
Thanks for the screencast, of course, but a written post would be soooooo much better. In my opinion, most of the linux users aren't exactly mad about voice acting and would find a good use of text information, which is faster to read and easier to copy into the terminal.

Submitted by Johan on Fri, 01/25/2013 - 21:42

It doesn't pop up in the "start menu" by default, even though a .desktop file is created in /usr/share/applications
Editing the file it says
OnlyShowIn=GNOME;
changning/removing this shows the application in the menu.

Submitted by Ivan Avery Frey on Sat, 03/02/2013 - 15:08
If you're using gpointing-device-settings, it's not necessary to install gsynaptics.

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