Two Finger Scrolling doesn't work on elementaryOS Hera on VMWare Player

Question

Two finger scroll doesn't work on elementaryOS 5.1.6 Hera:

• Built on Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS
• Linux 5.4.0-42-generic
• VMware SVGA II Adapter

Things I have already tried:

1. Touchpad not working on ASUS x550

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:hanipouspilot/focaltech-dkms
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install focaltech-dkms
sudo modprobe -r psmouse 
sudo modprobe psmouse

2. Two-finger Scroll is not working for my touchpad of ASUS X200MA

3. Installing xserver-xorg-input-synaptics left my distro inaccessible after a reboot, keyboard and mouse stopped working.

4. Because of 3. i couldn't try synclient VertTwoFingerScroll=1

Touchpad Setting

xinput list logs

lspci logs

Thanks for the help!

Answer 1

I faced the same issue, and solved it by following this guide for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS which is what Elementary OS Hera is based upon.

https://vitux.com/how-to-activate-two-finger-scrolling-in-ubuntu/

I didn't have to edit the configuration file, but after removing the libinput, and adding the synaptics package and rebooted then two finger scrolling started working. I ran the synclient command, and found that VertTwoFingerScrolling was already set to "1".