Two finger scrolling on a PC touchpad?

I've been using my girlfriend's Macbook for the last few months and really like the two finger scrolling option, it seems to work so much more reliably than the scrolling feature on my PC laptops that have you run your finger alongte edge of the trackpad. Is there a 3rd party driver somewhere that can give that support to my new Windows PC? It is a P1 SXS37 (which is based off an Asus barebones) and I've seen reports of people getting this to work on Asus machines with Linux.

 

No, that design is trademark of Apple, I don't think there would be any 3rd party driver that can do it.

 

What about in the synaptics control panel? You can customize a lot of stuff in there.

 

Unfortunately this is not one of the options in the standard driver.

As I said apparently some people have got this working using Linux on Asus hardware, so the hardware should support it.

I was pretty dismissive when Apple launched the two finger scrolling thing. I remember thinking how my laptop from back in 1995 could do this, and 10 years later Apple finally released a laptop with scrolling and they wanted to be considered innovators?

...but after using it for a few months I have to say it does work better than any PC solution I've used (and it works well in both OS X and XP). The edge scrolling just has never been that reliable for me. IT only seems to work on about 50% of the pages I want.

 

So I haven't completely given up on this, and I was looking through the registry today and I found a bunch of entries for 2FingerGestures and 3FingerGestures. I don't really want to go mucking about in the registry changing settings since I don't have any idea what I'm doing, but I'd imagine that changing some of the values here might get us somewhere?

If you have a Synaptics touchpad and are interested search the registry for "2finger"

Dylan

 

oh, it's TOTALLY doable. just ignore the above poster who said it wasn't. you can also look for finger_swipe, finger_flip, and finger_scroll, registry entries. you will need them each enabled (DWORD value) and set to 1.

download the touchpad driver from the apple site. you simply need to run it with the WINE (windows emulator). it will allow low level software/applications (like drivers) to run regardless of hardware and/or OS. you DO NOT WANT the linux version of WINE. you have to use the Windows version (duh!).

good luck.

 

That's awesome.

Just to be clear though, are these two separate ways to get to the same thing?

In the registry I have a bunch of items with ab next to the name. All of these have REG_SZ under type. If I need to enable these how would I change the type to REG_DWORD?

Thanks again,
Dylan

 

If you find out more dylanemcgregor, please share, this is something I have wanted to do as well!

 

I would love to see this working. Please keep us updated with any news on this topic.

 

Wow, that's interesting, I didn't know it was possible to do this on a PC touchpad. However, is WINE completely necessary? I mean if there are already registry codes for finger gestures then maybe simply setting them to true will do the job?

Please keep us posted!

 

so does this work with pc's?

 

The new EEE from Asus can, thats the only one I know of.

 

What kind of touchpad does the Eee PC use? Maybe someone could extract the driver package so people with a similar touchpad model can also do that 2 finger dance?

 

I dunno, I just know there are youtube vids of it being done. Maybe its just the stuff listed above with the registry, or maybe its more than that. I am interested in trying the above method tho. Thing is I almost never use my touchpad. Click & Drag is a major pain ....

 

It is possible for sure. It is not a hardware thing, but a software setting. As in, if you install the OS (that is not to be mentioned here) on your PC, you can do two finger scrolling.

 

I went to go thru the steps to get wine & the mac driver but the wine stuff is abit much its multiple files to download and it looks like its designed for use in a "fake" windows environment.

I actually dont understand why you would want a windows emulator thing, you need a mac emulator you would think. Oh well maybe somebody else will give it a shot its not important enough for me to mess with the hassles right now.

 

Hi,

Any news on getting the two finger to work?

 

In relation with this topic, have you seen this Synaptics video: Synaptics Presents: Things You Can Do with a Gesture

Apparently, enabling this is just a software/driver update (meaning older laptops with Synaptics TouchPad can support this). Unfortunately, the v10.1.8 driver available for download in the Synaptics website does not support these gestures.

 

Video was lame, but I really want the 2 finger scrolling like they have on Macs.

 

Any news on this?

 

why dont you guys just use strokeit or use tap zones, etc., that come with your touchpad's drivers?

http://www.tcbmi.com/strokeit/

i use right click+gesture

mine are like..

right movement = forward
left = back
up = close (alt+f4)
down = minimize
right down = pgdn
right up = pgup

 

I used to use tap zones and gestures, but I found I was inadvertently hitting the tapzone when I didn't want to, and never remembered to use it when I needed them. Besides, neither of these is useful for smooth scrolling, which is what I'm hoping to do.

 

Sinaptics or how ever you spell it does not support it I guess but they have the edge scrolling.

Elentech or how ever you spell it like my EEE has supports a TON of gestures, 2 finger scroll left or right, up or down.

3 finger for window swich, or 3 finger for opening a shortcut (you can change them to anything default it opens my computer)

Has right click with a tap of 3 fingers, middle click with a tap of 2 fingers, does zoom in/out with a pinch motion, and even has a magnifying glass with hold one finger down and tap 2x with another.

So if you can find a enentech pad and swap it out on your machine thats one way to do things.

 

Switch out the whole pad!?
Should be possible with only software, as all touchpads can register a gesture everywhere on the pad, just like them cool ones.

 

Pointing stick > 2 finger scrolling

 

works great for me: http://code.google.com/p/two-finger-scroll/

I am using their version 1.0.5 with the following settings:
* Acer Aspire 5002
* Synaptics drivers v.7.12.3.0
* Windows XP SP2

I particularily like the Smooth setting of two-finger-scroll project. Gratz.

 

Does this work for anybody else?

 

It works on Samsung NC10 too.

I think it works on any synaptics touchpad.

 

Not working here, how do i check if my touchpad supports multiple fingers?

 

Any chance for it to work on an Alps touchpad? lol.

 

Do you have a synaptics touchpad? if so which version?

 

Not working on my Sony Vaio VGN-NS150D. I think the synaptics version is 7.0? After I open the file and restart, it tells me " Driver support for multiple fingers is already enabled but the driver still doesn't report multiple fingers. Either you haven't restarted the system yet or your TouchPad doesn't support multiple fingers."
Any thoughts?

PS: the hardware ID is "SNY9008"

 

It works just perfect in my Asus Z96J.
It takes ~5 Mb of RAM by default, 8 MB when using smooth scrolling.

 

I have ChiralMotion and Momentum working but i don't even see an option for two finger scrolling. Maybe my touchpad's firmware is locked for one finger inputs only?

 

No, but you have to install this software:

http://code.google.com/p/two-finger-scroll/

On Synaptics controlled touchpad

 

works great here been looking for this for YEARS

 

doesn't work for me

 

I can't get it to work on a T400 machine.
Any help, please?

I have downloaded the software, installed, restarted, but I got
"Driver support for multiple fingers is already enabled but the driver still doesn't report multiple fingers. Either you haven't restarted the system yet or your TouchPad doesn't support multiple fingers."

TIA

 

ChiralMotion is better than two-finger scroll.

 

Thanks to namaiki

I finally get the ChiralMotion to work, but it doesnot work with Firefox. kinda defeat the purpose of it.

I am still trying to get the 2 finger scroll to work.

If anyone have done it successfully, please kindly let me know
thanks

 

hey guys..

i tried this software too on a Sony Vaio CS11
but I also get the message:

"Driver support for multiple fingers is already enabled but the driver still doesn't report multiple fingers. Either you haven't restarted the system yet or your TouchPad doesn't support multiple fingers."

iNoob.x and yuhu how did u get ChiralMotion??

Please help me!

Beta

 

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=218872 this link is for a thread on Chiral Motion, it is for Synaptics v10.2.4 modded for Acer Gemstone series or Acer MediaTouch. I use a Asus F8SN, it worked for me, may need to uninstall the current Synaptics driver. Updating the driver afterwards may remove Chiral scrolling (12.2.11). I would think I perfer two finger scrolling.

http://code.google.com/p/two-finger-scroll/ I have no luck getting two finger scrolling though. I use a Asus F8SN Windows Vista 32-bit. Installed twofingerscroll.exe under admin, also get message, "Driver support for multiple fingers is already enabled but the driver still doesn't report multiple fingers. Either you haven't restarted the system yet or your TouchPad doesn't support multiple fingers." Using Synaptics Touchpad v6.2, drivers 10.1.8, 10.2.4, and 12.2.11. None of them seem to successfully work for two finger scrolling.

Chiral motion does not work for Firefox v3.

 

Hey, Ive been reading through these posts and have been really wanting the two finger scroll on my laptop. Im am getting a new laptop real soon thinking about the HP dv4t and was wondering if anyone new if out of these things people have been saying to do, the two-finger scroll would be able to work on that lap top?

Please help??
Adam

 

All you have to do is install http://code.google.com/p/two-finger-scroll/

That said, I'm not sure if it works on HP DV4t. You'd better search or ask in the HP DV4t thread:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=276334

 

1/2/3 finger gestures works on my acer aspire one netbook.

 

if you aren't sure whether your laptop's trackpad supports multitouch, and TwoFingerScroll reports errors, load up ubuntu

best definitive way of determining multitouch capabilities
http://ubuntu-snippets.blogspot.com/2009/03/multi-touch-for-anyall-synaptics.html

 

hi guys,

two finger scroll working fine on asus notebook under windows!
(without crap like wine... )[/B]

ive searched a lot for getting two finger scroll work on my asus notebook.
after all i wasn't able to find a solution, so i thought it might be possible only with newer notebooks (and newer touchpads).

but after i have seen it work with ubuntu i searched again and found a solution, which i wrote down here:
[edit]

well, its german but perhaps you can translate it with google

i use a asus f3sc notebook and it works completely fine under windows 7! =) (and also under vista, xp,...)

missing in the two-finger-scroll app from google code:
2/3 finger tap works really bad
horizontal scroll doesnt work at all
there are no gestures like 3-finger-swipe-left for navigating back in webbrowser (like on a mac)

BUT:
im currently writing an app which supports all those features and could be used as a replacement for the google code two-finger-scroll app.
currently horizontal scroll only works in notepad and cooliris (???) but im gonna fix it
2/3 finger tap works too, but the tap-and-drag feature doestn. also to be fixed soon =)
i'll write down any future developments in the blog [edit]
feel free to share! =)

 

All those gestures are working with the modded Synaptics driver from here:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=306768

If you use that in combination with the Google app, everything works.

I have Asus A6G and it works well.

PS. I've edited your post since it's not the purpose of this forum to promote your blog.

From the forum rules:
You are not allowed to posts links to personal blogs in posts, no exceptions. Links of that type are restricted to the signature area only; see below for additional information.

 

Hi guys. I am using a Toshiba Satellite A305 with Windows 7 x64. It says that I am using a Synaptics Pointing Device - v11.2.4 14Aug08. I downloaded the two-finger-scroll thing on google code and tried running it but once I double click on the .exe it says "Synaptics Kernel Driver Registry Keys Missing. Reinstall Drivers." What does this mean? Thanks guys I REALLLY want to get this working so feedback would be much appreciated!

 

Try installing the latest driver from Synaptics.com