Scrolling Trackpad on Asus W3V

Hello everyone. I have an Asus W3V which has a little strip on the right side of the trackpad that you can move your finger along to scroll in Windows. Does anyone know how to enable this in Linux?

I tried checking apt-get, but there was nothing referring to a package for scrolling trackpads. Thanks

 

gsynaptics.

 

Thank you. Is ksynaptics just as good, for the KDE user? I downloaded it, and its in my system tray but its complaining about adding shared memory to the touchpad entry in xorg.conf. However, there's no touchpad entry there?

 

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SynapticsTouchpad

 

I have the Asus W3V as well (using it right now), this is from my xorg.conf:

Code:

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier	"Touchpad"
	Driver		"synaptics"
	Option		"Protocol"	"ImPS/2"
	Option		"Device"	"/dev/input/mouse0"
	Option		"LeftEdge"	"1700"
	Option		"RightEdge"	"5300"
	Option		"TopEdge"	"1700"
	Option		"BottomEdge"	"4200"
	Option		"FingerLow"	"25"
	Option		"FingerHIgh"	"30"
	Option		"MaxTapTime"	"180"
	Option		"MaxTapMove"	"220"
	Option		"VertScrollDelta"	"100"
	Option		"MinSpeed"	".20"
	Option		"MaxSpeed"	".25"
	Option		"AccelFactor"	"0.0015"
	Option		"RTCornerButton"	"7"
	Option		"LTCornerButton"	"6"
	Option		"LBCornerButton"	"2"
	Option		"RBCornerButton"	"0"
	Option		"CircularScrolling"	"on"
	Option		"CircScrollDelta"	"0.1"
	Option		"CircScrollTrigger"	"3"
	Option		"SHMConfig"	"on"
	Option		"ZAxisMapping"	"4 5"
	Option		"Emulate3Buttons"	"true"
EndSection

You probably don't want it exactly like mine, I like my touchpad fairly sensitive, and I prefer using "Circular Scrolling" (it's basically like using the clickwheel on an iPod), and I like having the corners of the touchpad act as different buttons. But it should act as a good template to start with.

There's probably a "synaptics" package that you'll have to enable, and the "Identifier" on my machine may be different than on yours, don't change that, but this may give you some ideas on some features you can use, etc.

I also found this Gentoo wiki page to be very useful in figuring out how to configure the touchpad. It may be from the Gentoo wiki, but everything from the X.org heading and on is non-distro specific.

Good luck, and have fun with this.

EDIT: gsynaptics and ksynaptics are both just GUI interfaces to modify what's in the xorg.conf file, so they should be pretty much the same (and neither is really necessary). I've never used ksynaptics, but I found configuring xorg.conf by hand to be easier than using gsynaptics (I don't remember why, but I just don't remember liking the interface very much).