Smooth scrolling with macbook touchpad

I've noted recently that, when using both the synaptics and mtrack touchpad drivers, two-finger scrolling moves in small increments, as with a mouse wheel, rather than in one continuous motion like in Mac OS X (where page movement follows finger movement more closely). Is it possible to use the latter behavior rather than emulate a physical mouse wheel?

I have a Macbook 11,1, the new 13" Retina. I'm currently running the mtrack driver, but synaptics experiences the same issue. My 10-mtrack.conf is as follows:
Section "InputClass"
MatchIsTouchpad "on"
Identifier "Touchpads"
Driver "mtrack"
Option "Sensitivity" "0.6"
Option "ButtonIntegrated" "true"
Option "ButtonMoveEmulate" "true"
Option "Sensitivity" "0.7"
Option "ClickFinger1" "1"
Option "ClickFinger2" "2"
Option "ClickFinger3" "3"
Option "TapButton1" "1"
Option "TapButton2" "2"
Option "TapButton3" "3"
#Option "TapButton1" "0"
#Option "TapButton2" "0"
#Option "TapButton3" "0"
Option "ThumbSize" "35"
Option "PalmSize" "55"
Option "DisableOnPalm" "true"
Option "IgnorePalm" "true"
Option "ClickTime" "25"
Option "ScrollDistance" "60"
Option "ScrollUpButton" "5"O
Option "ScrollDownButton" "4"
Option "ScrollLeftButton" "7"
Option "ScrollRightButton" "6"
EndSection
I'll try the edge scroll and see what happens.
EDIT: A fresh synaptics config sort of gives me smooth scrolling. Aha, I can still see the increments if I scroll slowly, but they're much less noticeable. I could work with that. However, synaptics does not (as far as I know) have the capability to ignore my thumb resting on the bottom of the trackpad, causing unwanted clicks. Can I get that functionality in synaptics?
Last edited by DrKillPatient (2013-11-18 22:24:37)

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