Samsung NC10: Enabling Two Finger Scrolling
Sunday, December 21, 2008 – 12:48 AMThe Synaptics Touchpad on the Samsung NC10
supports two finger scrolling but the driver they ship doesn’t enable this feature. Considering the touchpad is so small two finger scrolling sounds pretty attractive as it allows you to turn off the virtual scrollbars on the sides of the pad.
Lucky for there’s an open source tool that implements this feature.
You can download it from here:
http://code.google.com/p/two-finger-scroll/
This runs as a standalone EXE and can be configured to run at startup.
How to configure virtual scrolling
- Download the ZIP and install the EXE into C:\Program Files\.
- Run the EXE.
- Double Right click on the TwoFinger Scroll icon in the taskbar tray to open the properties window.
- Check the Start with Windows checkbox and close the settings window.
- Open the mouse settings in the Windows control panel and select the (Synaptics) device settings tab.
- Click Settings… to open the properties window and uncheck virtual scrolling checkboxes under the Virtual Scrolling tree node.
- Similarly uncheck the Pinch option under Pointer Motion tree node.
- Click Apply and close the dialogs.
More touchpad real estate is now yours.
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22 Responses to “Samsung NC10: Enabling Two Finger Scrolling”
gr8! thx
By Zoltan on Dec 27, 2008
What the heck is 2 finger scolling and why is it better than one?
By Graeme on Jan 5, 2009
Graeme,
Two finger scrolling allows you to scroll using the touchpad by simply using two fingers side by side and moving then up and down. This allows you to disable the side scrolling area used for one finger scrolling and effectively increase the size of the main touchpad area.
It’s pretty popular feature on MacBooks etc.
Ade
By Ade Miller on Jan 5, 2009
hello, when I use the two finger scroll. the webpage is seen to zoom in and out while scrolling. How am I supposed to solve this prob?~ thank you~
By Epst on Jan 13, 2009
Epst,
You need to open up the touchpad configuration and disable the zoom feature.
I’ll update the post I don’t think it mentions this because I’d turned it off previously as it wasn’t working very well anyway.
Ade
By Ade Miller on Jan 13, 2009
thanks~ it’s working fine now
By Epst on Jan 14, 2009
hi, Ade:
I;m thinking about if the 1024X600 resolution could somehow be adjusted into 1024X768 or higher? Because sometimes the webpage cannot be fully displayed~
Best,
Epst
By Epst on Jan 15, 2009
Hi, does the tapping facility work? It’d be sweet to be able to map them to things like the browser commands (Back/forwards/refresh spring to mind)
By irrev on Jan 26, 2009
irrev,
As far as I know it should. I’ve not actually tried it.
Ade
By Ade Miller on Jan 27, 2009
Thank you-thank you-thank you!!
The only reason I keep my old macbook around is this briliant feature. Now my spanking new NC10 has replaced that old beast forever….
By JK on Mar 23, 2009
My NC10 just went from really great to absolutely excellent!!
Thanks for the installation guide.
By Rille on Jul 28, 2009
wanted to know more guidance how to use the two finger scroll please
thank you
By jess on Jul 29, 2009
Hi Ade,
Many thanks for this tip – it’s brilliant. Is there a way to play with the sensitivity of the two-finger scrolling? I find it a little too reactive…
Many thanks
Fabien
By Fabien on Aug 11, 2009
Fabien,
Not that I know of. Maybe the basic mouse sensitivity settings effect this but I’ve not tried.
Ade
By Ade Miller on Aug 12, 2009
keeps saying:
class not registered
with all versions
By bill gates on Apr 19, 2010
Bill, You should read the updated post.
http://www.ademiller.com/blogs/tech/2009/10/windows-7-rtm-on-the-samsung-nc10/
Which applied to the RTM version of Windows 7.
Ade
By Ade Miller on Apr 19, 2010
i have windows xp, doesnt work for me
By bill gates on Apr 20, 2010
My Samsung NC-10 is great but drives me mad as the screen keeps zooming in and out without me intending to do it. As a complete moron in the computer dept. can you tell me what to do to make it stop! (in very simple terms)
Thanks so much
Jennie
By Jennie on Nov 19, 2010
Jennie,
You can turn off the zoom function from the touchpad settings menu. I suspect what’s happening is that you have it setup so that the edges of the touchpad, which is very small, scroll or zoom. I can’t give any more detail as I don’t have my NC10 with me.
Hope this helps,
Ade
By Ade Miller on Nov 21, 2010