I've been using gpointing-device-settings to enable both two-finger and edge scrolling on my trackpad, but it seems to not "remember" after reboot. The settings are still "ticked" in gpointing-device-settings but two-finger scrolling doesn't work until I uncheck and recheck the tickboxes for two-finger scrolling. How can I get Ubuntu to remember after reboot that I want both two-finger and edge scrolling without having to open gpointing-device-settings each time?
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Vote to close, because it's a bug (https://bugs.launchpad.net/gpointing-device-settings/+bug/489830). – htorque Oct 20 '11 at 20:59
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@htorque how kind :P – steoiatsl Jan 21 '15 at 07:56
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In dconf-editor you can edit the settings like this:
Go to org/gnome/settings-daemon/peripherals/touchpad There you can select e.g. two finger scrolling instead of boarder scrolling, disable while typing, tap-to click and all the other nice usability-enhancing features.
Maybe it's not as nice as gpointing-device-settings, but if they are not able to keep their tool updated, just forget about it and use dconf-editor.
this seems to affect hundreds or thousands Linux Users from many distributions it seems. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gpointing-device-settings/+bug/489830
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Store your current settings:
synclient -l | sed 's/Parameter settings://;s/ //g' > ~/.synpadSettings
Recover them:
cat ~/.synpadSettings | xargs synclient
I'm sure there's a good place to put these as shutdown and startup scripts for the your X session.
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This works on 14.04, good work, much better than the old way of switching to dconf-editor – Anake Apr 21 '14 at 00:58
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You can use `1d;s/ //g` rather than `s/Parameter settings://;s/ //g`, but this is the best answer. Thanks! – mudri Apr 24 '14 at 15:16