can't get touchegg to work with my touchpad

Question

Im sorry guys. I dunno if anyone's willing to help me and I'm just wasting my time here. But I've been poking around on the internet for days trying to find a way to get my Synaptics touchpad (Acer Aspire One D255) to work. I've been using touchegg (the GUI tool) to troubleshoot. I could only get two finger scrolling to work (from Ubuntu settings). Other gestures (2 fingers), like "pinch-to-zoom", "Tap", "Flick" etc. just do not work. I don't know what to do to fix it. There is support on Windows for these gestures. I'm asking for someone to please set aside some time to help me.

Thanks.

Solution

You need to disable two and three finger gestures of Ubuntu to make the touchegg gestures work. For detailed instructions consult the Ubuntu Wiki Multitouch.

The touchegg FAQ provides the following as a fast and easy solution:

You can simply execute this commands to allow Touchégg to use this gestures:

 synclient TapButton2=0
 synclient TapButton3=0
 synclient ClickFinger2=0
 synclient ClickFinger3=0
 synclient HorizTwoFingerScroll=0
 synclient VertTwoFingerScroll=0

Comments

[Lokesh]

No offense, but no matter how much help I received to certain questions, I never had the feeling that I was wasting my time here. This is the most helpful community on the net.

[Arshad Husain]

Well man.. it's been a day.. and nothing. Probably no hope anyways. :( I don't mean to be rude man.. but i am really upset with the ubuntu community. I've used Ubuntu since Dapper Drake in Late 2006. There was more help and support back then.. weird how that works eh? Sorry, Im just really upset right now.

[Luc]

Three-finger gestures were randomly not working in touchegg for me (Linux Mint 15, 16 and 17). Using synclient TapButton3=0 worked for me! Not sure why it randomly worked or broke before, but just now it was broken up until I tried the TapButton3 command. Thanks a lot!