Always wanted this feature but it never works in ubuntu. Is there any hack/mod to get it to work? My laptop is an Acer 5532, and my touchpad is from Synaptics. The latest drivers from Synaptics made two-finger scolling possible with Windos 7, so I'm guessing there's some way to work in Ubuntu/Linux.
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Did you try to change the settings of the mouse in the control center?
If it still does not work, run synclient -l in the terminal and provide us the results.
So I guess you enabled the two finger scrolling as described in my first answer. As you cannot post the results of synclient -l try the following:
Open start up applications and add a new application and write the following command into the command line
xterm -e synclient "EmulateTwoFingerMinZ=10"
this will change the most probably too high value in synclient.
2Touchpads explicitely need to support multi finger gestures. If you do not have such a touchpad, you are out of luck.
That's all to say without more information about your touchpad.
