Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Release: 16.04
Codename: xenial
Desktop: Gnome v3.20
Computer: Samsung Ativ Book 8
About a week ago, I started getting this error message when trying to run a synclient command for my touchpad:
Couldn't find synaptics properties. No synaptics driver loaded?
My touchpad actually works (regular mouse functionality, 2 finger scrolling, etc) - I just can't change any of it's settings using synclient
I've run these commands several times:
sudo apt-get purge xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
Those commands run as expected and it appears I have synaptics installed. But I get the same error message any time I try to access the synclient command.
This really seems like it should have a simple solution. Is there something I can check to see if the right files are being loaded in my path?
