Bug#583346: VertTwoFingerScroll and HorizTwoFingerScroll also not respected in xorg.conf
The situation for VertTwoFingerScroll and HorizTwoFingerScroll is
identical to TapButton1. The values set in xorg.conf are not respected,
but their settings in xorg.conf are shown as understood
in /var/log/Xorg.0.log. Thus if you set them to true and then run
"synclient -l" immediately after X boots, it shows them as 0. And of
course two finger scrolling doesn't work. If you then manually set them
to 1 with synclient, scrolling does work.
This bug doesn't effect all settings in xorg.conf. For example, the
settings of EmulateTwoFingerMinZ and EmulateTwoFingerMinW are respected,
as is SHMConfig.
For those of you having similar problems and wondering how to fix it, I
found adding this line to .bash_profile was the easiest workaround:
[ x"$DISPLAY" != x":0.0" ] || synclient TapButton1=1 HorizTwoFingerScroll=1 VertTwoFingerScroll=1
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