Wouldn't it be great if while scrolling down a really long web page, you could just twirl your finger in a circle motion at whatever speed you want (kind of like a fishing reel)? Well, in Windows you can do this with a Synaptics touch pad - after you tweak the settings a little bit. Although it's greate in Windows, I've used Linux for 9 years (Linux is just more fun!) and don't usually use Windows.

Have any of you discovered a way to do this in Linux? It would make the touch pad experience 100 times better at least! If anybody has a solution for this, I recommend all of you try it.

I'm using Arch Linux on my Dell XPS L501X. My xorg.conf touchpad section looks like this:

... oh, there's nothing about synaptic touch pad in my xorg.conf file...

(also, where do I go to change my username? I've had this account since Moses parted the red sea and need to change it).

This configuration page for Arch has the information you need.

Thanks for your help! Oddly enough I have used Arch Wiki for just about everything in getting Arch to work - I'm surprised I didn't even thinking of using it for the touch pad!

I originally went with the common xorg.conf configuration they displayed, but then I changed my mind and installed gsynaptics; and added this to xorg.conf:

Section "InputClass"
Identifier "touchpad cachall"
"SHMConfig" "true"
EndSection

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