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Today I installed the Ubuntu 10.10 release on my Desktop PC. I was running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS with an Apple Magic Trackpad and everything was working fine. After today's fresh installation of Ubuntu 10.10, I don't see my Apple Magic Trackpad's multitouch working. Two-finger scrolling and three-finger third mouse button clicking are completely broken.

Has anyone else experienced a similar issue? Has anyone had success with Ubuntu 10.10 and an Apple Magic TrackPad?

Please help me to fix this issue. Your help is highly appreciated...

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So far I've only had success in 10.10 by using the "synaptics" driver.

Put the following in your xorg.conf:

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "multitouch touchpad"
        MatchIsTouchpad "on"
        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
        Driver "synaptics"
EndSection

Once that's done, you should be able to tweak the cursor speed, scrolling speed and other parameters with gpointing-device-settings. Not sure if it's legacy now, but you may need

Option "SHMConfig" "True"

in the above section for that as well.

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  • Thanks alot. It worked. However, I was having one finger touch for left click and two finger touch for right click and 3 finger touch for middle click. Now, 3 finger click as expected... Single finger touch changed to right click and two finger touch changed to left click. How can change this ?. Thanks in advance... Oct 11, 2010 at 17:31
  • I'm unable to reproduce that behavior. You may want to ask for assistance in the #ubuntu-touch channel on Freenode.
    – mgunes
    Oct 11, 2010 at 19:43
  • Thanks. Is your trackpad single touch mapped to left click ?. (for right hand mouse). I didn't had Option SHMConfig "True". Is that makes any difference ?. ubuntu-snippets.blogspot.com/2009/03/… Oct 11, 2010 at 22:49
  • Yes, it's left click; try adding that option.
    – mgunes
    Oct 12, 2010 at 0:41
  • yesterday, i added option SHMConfig "true" to my xorg.conf and i didnt reboot since i was working some important stuff.. till today afternoon 2 finger was left click... just now, i came back to work after a small break, i saw 2 finger is right click and one finger touch is left click. :).. not sure what happened and what module config related or whatever..now I'm happy with current settings.... Oct 14, 2010 at 4:31
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With multiple monitors and ATI eyefinity (3 screens 5760x1080 px) I had a problem with the vertical and horizontal movement speed and acceleration of the mouse pointer with the Apple Magic trackpad in Ubuntu 11.04. (I use the ATI propriety FGLRX drivers)

Also i wanted to simulate the fast flick-to-scroll behavior with two fingers as in OSX.

My settings for the Magic trackpad in /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Section "InputClass"      
    Identifier      "Apple Magic Trackpad"
    MatchIsTouchpad "on"
    MatchUSBID      "05ac:030e"
    Driver          "synaptics"
    Option          "VertScrollDelta"  "50"
    Option          "HorizScrollDelta" "50"
    Option          "MinSpeed"         "0.6"
    Option          "MaxSpeed"         "1.3" 
    Option          "AccelFactor"      "0.08"
    # these two options are for multiple monitors 3:1 ratio.  
    Option          "VertResolution"   "1"
    Option          "HorizResolution"  "3"
EndSection
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wiki.ubuntu page about 10.10 and Apple Magic Trackpad

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Read post on omgubuntu.co.uk blog: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/09/benjamin-gets-his-hands-on-the-apple-magic-trackpad/

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