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How can I personalize my MacBook Pro Touchpad?

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I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on a MacBook Pro 5.5. I'm just wondering if there is something that takes all the kinks out of the touch-pad. It works good, but it feels sluggish, double tap works about 75% of the time and sometimes while I it somehow selects something on a different page (although I'm not sure if that has to deal with the touch-pad and not weird laptop bugs for a new LTS)

If there are any programs, apps, commands aside from the built in system preferences > mouse and track-pad > touch-pad menu that allow someone to "optimize" touch-pad potential.

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answered 2 Years ago amacal · Accepted Answer

You can modify the relevant section of the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf. If the file doesn't exist, create one. An example file to show you the proper format is this:

Section "InputClass"

    Identifier         "Touchpad"

    Driver             "synaptics"

    MatchIsTouchpad    "on"

    Option         "ClickFinger3" "2"

    Option         "HorizTwoFingerScroll" "1"

    Option         "VertScrollDelta" "85"

    Option         "HorizScrollDelta" "85"

    Option         "TapButton1" "0"

    Option         "TapButton2" "0"

    Option         "TapButton3" "0"

    Option         "FingerHigh" "8"

    Option         "FingerLow" "8"

EndSection

You can delete, modify, or add option lines. Here are some frequently used options. (The link refers to another file, but don't worry about that; the path I gave will do the same thing)

Since it's cumbersome to restart each time to test your configuration, I recommend using synclient at the command line. Here's another Arch wiki link that explains how to use synclient. Besides using it to test values for options, you can also see what the default values are for the options you didn't set.