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I don't see anything about horizontal scrolling of any kind in xinput. It must be capable of it. Many years ago, I used horizontal edge scrolling in Windows, and I know horizontal edge scrolling is a thing in Linux from other web sites saying how to enable it. I don't imagine it's a difficult feature on the dev side, since it's just a simple motion on a specific part of the touchpad that shouldn't have to be filtered out from other usage. Therefore I conclude that my touchpad most likely supports it. But it's just not in the list.
I'm using Void Linux, kernel 6.1.9_1, i3WM, all stock packages.
We use FISynclient as a GUI front-end to handle Synaptics set-up in 'Puppy' Linux. I don't know if it's a standard package in most distros, though I would imagine so...
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