Comment 2 for bug 795920

Stefan Ebner - I've forwarded this bug upstream to http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39055 - please subscribe yourself to this bug, in case they need further information or wish you to test something. Thanks ahead of time!

I suspect that the special area just hasn't gotten support added in -synaptics, which would be why it isn't working.