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Dave
Asked: 2012-05-03 09:27:06 +0800 CST

How to edit Synaptics Touchpad values in Ubuntu 12.04? No xorg.conf file!

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After I installed Ubuntu 12.04 got some issues with my touchpad. I reported the problem and finally today a guy replied here - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-input-synaptics/+bug/992330 It seems that the solution was good because I edited HorizHysteresis and VertHysteresis using synclient: synclient VertHysteresis=48 and synclient HorizHysteresis=48 To see if they were really edited I run into terminal synclient and just seen there the values I added. Everything is running perfectly till now. But after I restarted Ubuntu the values are gone and rolled back to default. A guy told me to edit the xorg.conf file but there is no xorg.conf file in etc/X11.

Thanks and hope someone can give me a good solution.

xorg synaptics

1 Answers

  1. In the terminal, I ran 

    sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-input-synaptics

    and the touchpad started working; the touchpad-tab was also visible in settings (mouse).

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