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I recently installed Mint 17 Cinnamon on my laptop and am not able to get the Two-finger scrolling to work. I have changed the Panel Layout to Two-finger scrolling in system settings but that doesn't help.

Also, I have followed the answers here: Linux Mint 12 two finger scrolling and added the lines from here but that doesn't help either.

I copied /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/ to /etc/X11/ and my /usr/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf looks like this: 

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "touchpad catchall"
        Driver "synaptics"
        MatchIsTouchpad "on"
        Option "VertEdgeScroll" "on"
        Option "VertTwoFingerScroll" "on"
        Option "HorizEdgeScroll" "on"
        Option "HorizTwoFingerScroll" "on"
# This option is recommend on all Linux systems using evdev, but cannot be
# enabled by default. See the following link for details:
# http://who-t.blogspot.com/2010/11/how-to-ignore-configuration-errors.html
      MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
EndSection

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "touchpad ignore duplicates"
        MatchIsTouchpad "on"
        MatchOS "Linux"
        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/mouse*"
        Option "Ignore" "on"
EndSection

# This option enables the bottom right corner to be a right button on
# non-synaptics clickpads.
# This option is only interpreted by clickpads.
Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "Default clickpad buttons"
        MatchDriver "synaptics"
        Option "SoftButtonAreas" "50% 0 82% 0 0 0 0 0"
#       To disable the bottom edge area so the buttons only work as buttons,
#       not for movement, set the AreaBottomEdge
#       Option "AreaBottomEdge" "82%"
EndSection

# This option disables software buttons on Apple touchpads.
# This option is only interpreted by clickpads.
Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "Disable clickpad buttons on Apple touchpads"
        MatchProduct "Apple|bcm5974"
        MatchDriver "synaptics"
        Option "SoftButtonAreas" "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0"
EndSection

I did a reboot as well but Two-finger scrolling still does not work.

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  • I'm using mint 17 on my laptop and two-finger scrolling just works, i haven't done anything special. Are you sure your driver/touchpad supports it? – smokes2345 May 13 '15 at 21:55
  • The two-finger scroll works just fine on my windows. – Ajax May 13 '15 at 23:23
  • Try running `evtest` on the input device in question. It is possible it is not registering multiple pointers simultaneously. – AJMansfield May 14 '15 at 10:01
  • @AJMansfield I ran the evtest. You were right. it is not registering multiple pointers simultaneously. Could you suggest a possible fix? – Ajax May 15 '15 at 04:43
  • @Ajax Unfortunately, I'm just as clueless as you in that respect. (Actually, probably more so, as I don't have the machine in front of me here.) – AJMansfield May 15 '15 at 12:42
  • It might help to add information on the exact hardware in use. – AJMansfield May 15 '15 at 12:45

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Use the command:

synclient VertTwoFingerScroll=1
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