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1/19/13 at 4:14pm
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I was playing with Fedora 18 and found that I can enable 2-finger scrolling by entering the following commands in terminal under root:
synclient VertTwoFingerScroll=1
synclient HorizTwoFingerScroll=1
synclient EmulateTwoFingerMinW=5
synclient EmulateTwoFingerMinZ=48

However, when the system is turned off I have to enter the commands again to get my 2-finger scrolling back. I have spent many hours trying to get the system to auto-run these commands after startup but I really can't figure out how to do it. I only know very little about these kinds of things, any thoughts?
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1/19/13 at 4:23pm
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I was playing with Fedora 18 and found that I can enable 2-finger scrolling by entering the following commands in terminal under root:
synclient VertTwoFingerScroll=1
synclient HorizTwoFingerScroll=1
synclient EmulateTwoFingerMinW=5
synclient EmulateTwoFingerMinZ=48

However, when the system is turned off I have to enter the commands again to get my 2-finger scrolling back. I have spent many hours trying to get the system to auto-run these commands after startup but I really can't figure out how to do it. I only know very little about these kinds of things, any thoughts?

I'm not totally familiar with Fedora 18 or the desktop environment you're using but you should be able to add scripts or applications to run when you login (Ubuntu calls it "Startup Applications" I believe). At any rate once you find that utility the way to do it would be to put the following into a shell script and then create a custom startup action that runs the script on startup.
Code:
#!/bin/bash
synclient VertTwoFingerScroll=1
synclient HorizTwoFingerScroll=1
synclient EmulateTwoFingerMinW=5
synclient EmulateTwoFingerMinZ=48
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post #3 of 8
1/19/13 at 4:47pm
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I used gnome-session-properties command to add a new startup application. The application has it's command linked to a file in /etc/init.d/ that contained:
#!/bin/bash
synclient VertTwoFingerScroll=1
synclient HorizTwoFingerScroll=1
synclient EmulateTwoFingerMinW=5
synclient EmulateTwoFingerMinZ=48

I made sure the new application was selected and restarted the system, no dice.
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1/19/13 at 5:52pm
Why don't you configure Synaptics directly

/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-synaptics.conf

Section "InputClass"
Identifier "touchpad"
Driver "synaptics"
MatchIsTouchpad "on"
Option "VertTwoFingerScroll" "on"
Option "HorizTwoFingerScroll" "on"
Option "EmulateTwoFingerMinZ" "48"
Option "EmulateTwoFingerMinW" "5"
EndSection
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1/19/13 at 6:01pm
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Forgot to mention, I already changed that (though my file was 50-synaptics.conf)
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1/19/13 at 7:31pm
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Forgot to mention, I already changed that (though my file was 50-synaptics.conf)
Sounds like it might be a bug or something then if that file isn't being read or obeyed. When you just boot up the system, without doing anything else, do you see the config options you added to the config file when you run
Code:
synclient -l
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1/19/13 at 9:41pm
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Running "synclient -l" shows a long list of settings.

Option "EmulateTwoFingerMinZ" "48"
Option "EmulateTwoFingerMinW" "5"

are both listed with a value of 10, instead of the values I have defined.
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1/20/13 at 6:42pm
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Running "synclient -l" shows a long list of settings.

Option "EmulateTwoFingerMinZ" "48"
Option "EmulateTwoFingerMinW" "5"

are both listed with a value of 10, instead of the values I have defined.

That really doesn't make any sense to me. It's like it isn't reading the file or something. Might not be a bad idea to report it as a bug.
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