Enable Touchpad Features on Linux Laptop

I have a Samsung laptop that I wiped Windows 8 off and installed Fedora 18 Live Security on. After the successful install and boot, the second thing I wanted to do to make navigation easier and faster was to enable my touchpad to click and scroll using double fingers. Below are the steps I took:

1. Find out the drivers running my touchpad.
[g33k@localhost ~]$ dmesg | grep -i touchpad
[ 2.163493] psmouse serio1: synaptics: Touchpad model: 1, fw: 7.5, id: 0x1e0b1, caps: 0xf00433/0x240000/0xa2400, board id: 1874, fw id: 1206283
[ 2.225968] input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input5
2. Create new xorg.conf file called 50-synaptics.conf
[g33k@localhost ~]$ sudo vim /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf
3. Copy code to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf.
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "touchpad catchall"
Driver "synaptics"
MatchIsTouchpad "on"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
Option "HorizScrollDelta" "0"
Option "TapButton1" "1"
Option "TapButton2" "2"
Option "RBCornerButton" "3"
Option "VertTwoFingerScroll" "1"
EndSection
4. Restart x-server or easer just reboot laptop.

Source:Jaise James Blog

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