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    Windows 8 touchpad gestures WORKING!

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by Lundon44, Oct 29, 2012.

  1. Lundon44

    Lundon44 Notebook Consultant

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    Not sure if this is old news but I found a newer Synaptics touchpad driver for some HP Windows 8 notebook and installed it for fun on my M17x R3 and it works flawlessly including Windows 8 gestures.

    Driver link: ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp59001-59500/sp59085.exe

    Gestures info: Synaptics Gesture Suite

    Personally I find the top and left edge gestures difficult to do. Perhaps some tweaking in the settings might help..

    Let me know what you think :thumbsup:
     
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    Unless I am doing something wrong this driver does not enable Windows 8 gestures for R4. The "enable edge swipes" feature option only shows me a blank page. Everything is functional but the edge swipes option is not available.
     
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    Strange, the U.S. Dell support site still only features synaptics drivers from five months ago. No update for Windows 8 gestures support. And the one you linked has no support for gestures either. Furthermore, it for some reason has inverted vertical scrolling.
     
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    Chris_c81 Notebook Consultant

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    I can confirm that the gesture of swiping your finger in from the right edge to middle quite quickly will pull out the right side bar in Windows 8. I'm using the Windows 8 drivers from Dell on my R4. Not tried any other gestures yet.
     
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    Gonna give this a shot.. Thanks!
     
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    Lundon44 Notebook Consultant

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    You will need to go into the control panel>mouse and Synaptics settings to enable a full things that give you the gestures. When installed it doesn't enable some of these features by default. 2 and 3 finger scrolling and so on needed to be enabled. The swiping from the right edge to the middle of the touchpad also brings up the charms menu for me. There's another gesture to emulate the grabbing of the top of the screen in an app and pulling it down by swiping from top edge to middle while in an app to close it. But that's a trickier one and I've only been able to do it a handful of times at best.

    For anyone having issues or not seeing the gestures make sure you go into the control panel and then the Synaptics settings. There's a list of features to check or uncheck. As well they show you video tutorials and have a practice area to practice the gestures.
     
    Lundon44, Oct 29, 2012
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