Touchpads on laptops running Windows are limited when it comes to finger gestures that the touchpad accepts. That’s unlike the touchpad on Macs that offer additional possibilities that Windows users until now were not able to use.
Two Finger Scroll tries to change that by adding to the functionality of Synaptics touchpads. The portable software program just needs to be executed for the new functionality to become available.
Most laptops have Synaptics touchpads which means that Two Finger Scroll should work on most that are sold with Windows.
The software program currently adds two features to the touchpad that allow the laptop user to do the following:
- Two finger scrolling – scroll vertically by sliding two fingers anywhere on the TouchPad
- Two finger tapping – tap with two fingers to simulate a selected mouse button
The application places an icon into the Windows System Tray upon startup that can be used to configure it. A right-click and the selection of Settings from the menu will display the settings of the software program.
It is here that the user can define specific scrolling settings from speed and acceleration to the scroll type and mode.
The tapping menu contains additional configurations to configure other finger gestures from one plus one finger to three fingers which can be set to mouse buttons currently.
Two Finger Scroll adds the functionality to the Windows laptop without installing new drivers for the touchpad. That is its greatest strength. The portable software program can be downloaded from the Codeplex website of the project. (via Lifehacker)
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Does this work for all Synaptics touchpads, or only the newer multitouchpads?
Man, these devs are brave, aren’t they worried that Apple is going to sue them for using a: “Touch Screen Device, Method, And Graphical User Interface For Determining Commands By Applying Heuristics” ;)
Thank you but before installing it I suggest to check latest Synaptics touchpad driver that contain “Gesture Suite” and correct me if I’m wrong but “Gesture Suite” contains all of the options mentioned in the article.
http://www.synaptics.com/solutions/technology/gestures/touchpad
Latest driver download:
http://www.synaptics.com/support/drivers
Regards
I would like to ask Martin/Jack or any of your readers on how to enable two finger mouse scrolling in Ubuntu? (Karmic), Compaq 610 Laptop.
So far every time I touch the pad with two fingers cursor goes crazy.
I did some google search but couldn’t find anything on how to edit synclient for this purpose.
Thx in advance!
edit: not two finger “mouse” scrolling but two finger touchpad scrolling.
Sweet feature!
I have been yearning for this ever since I first saw it on a Mac.
Too bad my HP has an ALPS touchpad which sucked plenty compared to its Synaptics brethren even before being increasingly outdone by this additional feature ;-(
it works on all synaptic trackpads, even old ones that do not support 2 finger scrolling. the driver limets its capibil;ity, so it will still work