{"id":196,"date":"2010-10-16T10:59:41","date_gmt":"2010-10-16T08:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ceh-photo.de\/blog\/?p=196"},"modified":"2010-10-16T10:59:41","modified_gmt":"2010-10-16T08:59:41","slug":"acer-1825-enable-multitouch-features-for-touchpad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ceh-photo.de\/blog\/?p=196","title":{"rendered":"Acer 1825 enable multitouch features for touchpad"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a short instruction to enable 2 finger scrolling on the touchpad of the Acer 1825:<\/p>\n

create a script and open it with an editor<\/p>\n

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touch<\/span> touchpad.run
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\ngedit touchpad.run<\/div><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div>\n

copy \u00a0and paste the following lines into the script<\/p>\n

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<\/div><\/td>
#!\/bin\/sh<\/span>
\n
\n#<\/span>
\n
\n# Use xinput --list-props "SynPS\/2 Synaptics TouchPad" to extract data<\/span>
\n
\n#<\/span>
\n
\nsleep<\/span> 10<\/span> #is necessary to have all modules load before the script runs<\/span>
\n
\n# Set multi-touch emulation parameters<\/span>
\n
\nxinput set-int-prop "SynPS\/2 Synaptics TouchPad"<\/span> "Synaptics Two-Finger Pressure"<\/span> 32<\/span> 10<\/span>
\n
\nxinput set-int-prop "SynPS\/2 Synaptics TouchPad"<\/span> "Synaptics Two-Finger Width"<\/span> 32<\/span> 8<\/span>
\n
\nxinput set-int-prop "SynPS\/2 Synaptics TouchPad"<\/span> "Two-Finger Scrolling"<\/span> 8<\/span> 1<\/span>
\n
\nxinput set-int-prop "SynPS\/2 Synaptics TouchPad"<\/span> "Synaptics Two-Finger Scrolling"<\/span> 8<\/span> 1<\/span> 1<\/span>
\n
\n# Disable edge scrolling<\/span>
\n
\nxinput set-int-prop "SynPS\/2 Synaptics TouchPad"<\/span> "Synaptics Edge Scrolling"<\/span> 8<\/span> 0<\/span> 0<\/span> 0<\/span>
\n
\n# This will make cursor not to jump if you have two fingers on the touchpad and you list one<\/span>
\n
\n# (which you usually do after two-finger scrolling)<\/span>
\n
\nxinput set-int-prop "SynPS\/2 Synaptics TouchPad"<\/span> "Synaptics Jumpy Cursor Threshold"<\/span> 32<\/span> 110<\/span><\/div><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div>\n

save the script and enable following permissons:<\/p>\n

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chmod<\/span> +x touchpad.run<\/div><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div>\n

Last step you need to add the script to the autostart programs:<\/p>\n

System–>preferences->startprograms<\/p>\n

\"touchpad<\/p>\n

#!\/bin\/sh<\/div>\n
#<\/div>\n
# Use xinput –list-props “SynPS\/2 Synaptics TouchPad” to extract data<\/div>\n
#<\/div>\n
sleep 10 #is necessary to have all modules load before the script runs<\/div>\n
# Set multi-touch emulation parameters<\/div>\n
xinput set-int-prop “SynPS\/2 Synaptics TouchPad” “Synaptics Two-Finger Pressure” 32 10<\/div>\n
xinput set-int-prop “SynPS\/2 Synaptics TouchPad” “Synaptics Two-Finger Width” 32 8<\/div>\n
xinput set-int-prop “SynPS\/2 Synaptics TouchPad” “Two-Finger Scrolling” 8 1<\/div>\n
xinput set-int-prop “SynPS\/2 Synaptics TouchPad” “Synaptics Two-Finger Scrolling” 8 1 1<\/div>\n
# Disable edge scrolling<\/div>\n
xinput set-int-prop “SynPS\/2 Synaptics TouchPad” “Synaptics Edge Scrolling” 8 0 0 0<\/div>\n
# This will make cursor not to jump if you have two fingers on the touchpad and you list one<\/div>\n
# (which you usually do after two-finger scrolling)<\/div>\n
xinput set-int-prop “SynPS\/2 Synaptics TouchPad” “Synaptics Jumpy Cursor Threshold” 32 110<\/div>\n

Then reboot and you should be able to scroll with two fingers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a short instruction to enable 2 finger scrolling on the touchpad of the Acer 1825: create a script and open it with an editor 123touch touchpad.run gedit touchpad.run copy \u00a0and paste the following lines into the script 1234567891011121314151617181920212223242526272829#!\/bin\/sh # # Use xinput –list-props "SynPS\/2 Synaptics TouchPad" to extract data # sleep 10 #is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[56,40,57],"class_list":["post-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general_news","tag-acer-1825","tag-linux","tag-ubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ceh-photo.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ceh-photo.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ceh-photo.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ceh-photo.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ceh-photo.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ceh-photo.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198,"href":"https:\/\/www.ceh-photo.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions\/198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ceh-photo.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ceh-photo.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ceh-photo.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}