I am running Ubuntu 14.10 with Unity. I would really like to make some multitouch gestures work, so I can use my touchpad to e.g. spread all windows, change workspace, and the like. My computer has a SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad. When I run geisview, and look under:
"Device [ID] Added: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"
it says "Device Touches: 2", which should mean that my touchpad is only capable of recognizing 2 finges.. I checked in another forum (Arch Linux - https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Touchpad_Synaptics#Using_xinput_to_determine_touchpad_capabilities). And here it says i can use xinput to determine its capabilities. So I run:
xinput list-props "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" | grep Capabilities
and I get this output:
Synaptics Capabilities (295): 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1
which evidently means that it should be capable of recognizing at least 3 finges..
When I download touchegg and run it in a terminal it gives absolutely no output.. Not even with 1- or 2-finger-gestures.
Can anyone please help! Would love to make this work! Thanks in advance! :)