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GSynaptics Manual V&manrevision; &date; Olivier Berger oberger@ouvaton.org &project; This manual describes version &appversion; of GSynaptics. To report a bug or make a suggestion regarding the &app; application or this manual, follow the directions in . Mail Notification &app; is a tool designed to help setting configuration values for the X Synaptics touchpad driver. It helps configure the X synaptics touchpad driver parameters without editing X configuration files, through the use of the synclient tool in the backend. You can start &app; in the following ways: Desktop menu Choose Preferences Touchpad (this location may vary across systems). Command line To start &app; from a command line, type the following command, then press Return: gsynaptics To use the values you have set at each start of your Gnome session, you have to run gsynaptics-init on session start. Choose Desktop menu, Preferences Sessions (this location may vary across systems). Then in Startup Programs, you have to add gsynaptics-init. This tool can be used only if the synaptics driver is used by the X server. Also, it will only be able to communicate with the driver, if the synclient tool is installed and operational, which means there is "SHMConfig" "true" in the section of the synaptics driver in xorg.conf or XF86Config. Example: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad" Driver "synaptics" Option "SendCoreEvents" "true" Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" Option "Protocol" "auto-dev" Option "HorizScrollDelta" "0" Option "SHMConfig" "true" EndSection To configure &app;, choose Preferences Touchpad (this location may vary across systems). The Preferences dialog contains the following tabbed sections: General Tapping Scrolling Enable touchpad If this option is enabled, the touchpad will be active. Sensitivity This will set the sensitivity level (from low to high). This represents the sensitivity of the touchpad to react to pressure. Depending on the actual sensitivity of your touchpad device, you may need to fine-tune this setting so that short pressure taps can be detected properly. Enable tapping If this option is enabled, tapping the touchpad can be used to make clicks at the cursor position. Tapping time This will set the sensitivity of taps/clicks detection as a function of the length of the period during which the finger will stay in contact to the touchpad. Enable faster tapping Makes the driver react faster to a single tap, but also makes double clicks caused by double tapping slower . (borrowed from man 5 synaptics for FastTaps configuration value of the driver) Scrolling The touchpad can be used to control scrolling, as could be done with a scroll-wheel mouse. Enable vertical scrolling If this option is enabled, vertical scrolling (emulating a scroll mouse) is possible when moving the finger along the right side of the touchpad. The scrolling speed can be set here. Enable horizontal scrolling If this option is enabled, horizontal scrolling is possible when moving the finger along the bottom side of the touchpad. The scrolling speed can be set here. Enable Circular scrolling If this option is enabled, the touchpad can act as a scrolling wheel, by drawing a circle with the finger on the touchpad. The scrolling speed can be set here. The start point of the circle for circular scrolling can also be set here. On an edge continue scrolling TBD cursor movement TBD The &app; program won't allow you to set all possible configuration options for the synaptics driver. For more advanced configuration, please refer to the synclient command. &app; was written by Hiroyuki Ikezoe poincare@ikezoe.net, Takuro Ashie ashie@homa.ne.jp and Ikuya Awashiro ikuya@fruitsbasket.info. To find more information about &app;, visit the GSynaptics web page. Bug reports and feedback should be sent to Hiroyuki Ikezoe poincare@ikezoe.net, Takuro Ashie ashie@homa.ne.jp and Ikuya Awashiro ikuya@fruitsbasket.info. &software-license;