Touchpad/Touch panel: Installation and configuration of notebook pointing device

Driver

sudo apt install xserver-xorg-input-synaptics

Elantech Brand

Many notebooks now use this brand of touchpad, especially the Asus machine, please update Linux-kernel to 2.6.35.

qii@qii-k40in:~$ uhttp://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/11696.html ">name-a
Linux qii-k40in 2.6.35-22-generic #35-ubuntu SMP Sat Oct 20:36:48 UTC i686 GNU

Configuration

Basically this age, no special editing xorg.conf is needed to set the touchpad.

Touchpad Configuration

sudo apt install kde-config-touchpad #Kubuntu的触摸板配置工具

Disable Touchpad on power-on

Synclient touchpadoff=1 #添加到系统开机启动项中

Suspend Touch pad while typing

Syndaemon-i #3秒是暂停时间

Switch Touchpad shortcuts

Some notebooks do not have the FN+F9 switch touchpad function, can write script, bind shortcut keys.

#!/bin/bash

ts= ' Synclient-l|grep Touchpadoff '
ts=${ts#*=}
if (("$ts" = 0))
Then
Synclient touchpadoff=1
Else
Synclient touchpadoff=0
Fi

Basic reaction

Single pointing touch panel = left mouse button click
Double pointing touch panel = middle mouse button
Three pointing touch panel = right mouse button
Single pointing 2 touch panel = left mouse button double click

Double finger Scrolling

Two fingers together on the slide, the page on the roll, slide, the page roll down, left sliding, the page left, right sliding, the page to the right.

Circular scrolling

Circular scrolling, the touch panel draws circles instead of vertical and horizontal scrolling.

Tapping

It's useful.

Three-fingered window dragging

It is not supported for the time being.

Inertia Slide

Coasting

Two fingers opening and closing

Pinching, multi-touch, means zoom in or out, still in development.

Three fingers, light sweep.

Three-finger swipe up and down,left and right are still in development.

Four fingers, light sweep.

...... Ibid.。