Comment 9 for bug 288332

I was under the impression that xorg.conf is mostly ignored now though.

2008/12/3 captaintrav <email address hidden>

> I understand it is frustrating not having an easy to use interface to
> get proper touchpad performance. I've reverted to Hardy from Intrepid
> due to other issues, but I didn't have touchpad issues with my
> xorg.conf.
>
> Try something like this in /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad"
> Driver "synaptics"
> Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
> Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
> Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
> Option "HorizEdgeScroll" "0"
> Option "LeftEdge" "130"
> Option "RightEdge" "840"
> Option "TopEdge" "130"
> Option "BottomEdge" "640"
> Option "FingerLow" "7"
> Option "FingerHigh" "8"
> Option "MaxTapTime" "180"
> Option "MinTapTime" "110"
> Option "ClickTime" "0"
> Option "EmulateMidButtonTime" "75"
> Option "VertScrollDelta" "20"
> Option "HorizScrollDelta" "20"
> Option "MinSpeed" "0.50"
> Option "MaxSpeed" "0.85"
> Option "AccelFactor" "0.050"
> Option "EdgeMotionMinSpeed" "200"
> Option "EdgeMotionMaxSpeed" "200"
> Option "UpDownScrolling" "1"
> Option "CircularScrolling" "off"
> Option "CircScrollDelta" "0.1"
> Option "CircScrollTrigger" "3"
> Option "VertEdgeScroll" "on"
> EndSection
>
> If you're really bored, look at the man page for "synaptics" to see what
> all the settings do. Though my setup is for the synaptic driver, I'm
> using an ALPS touchpad on a Dell Latitude, the synaptics driver supports
> both.
>
> --
> Impossible to change synaptics touchpad settings
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/288332
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