HOW TO: ALPS touchpad with circle scroll and back and forward in firefox

pyr0000 · 10-12-2008, 02:35 AM

Hello,

I have been looking to make my alps pad better and with some info i found on here i was able to do just that. now i have "back/forward" slide gestures and circle scrolling, in firefox!! this will also enables alot more things.

first of all thanks to fonduekid for letting us know of the new drivers.
and to SpotMe for the regedit info.

to start off go HERE, and download that driver.

Install, restart.

after windows restarts run regedit
look for "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Alps\APoint"
with in that folder look for "UseCustomGUI"
double click and change the value data to "0"
close regedit
open mouse properties and you will have all the features unlocked. circle scrolling are within the dell tab and the back/forward is under gestures tab.

Unfortunately Alps still will not recognize Firefox. To be able to use the "back and forward" slide gesture you will have to go here and download a firefox addon called nightly tester tools.
once installed, with in firefox go to tools>addons and click on options for Nightly tester tools.
the first check box is to "Use Custom Title" check that
and type in "Netscape" with a capitol N
And you are all done. if done properly you should have full features of the mouse. There will be times that back/forward wont work do to a very long title bar, but most of the time it works great.

once again thanks to fonduekid and SpotMe

-pyr0000

UPDATE :
if you want smoother scrolling in firefox i would suggest one of these add-ons
smoothwheel
yet another smooth scrolling

fonduekid · 10-12-2008, 02:41 AM

Hey there... Nice information, thanks..

But for me I have those features without changing the registry value... meaning, I still have '1" for "UseCustomGUI" and I still see those scrolling features and the circle scrolling... Anyways.. I never understand computer' n software' fully..

pyr0000 · 10-12-2008, 02:42 AM

but you dont have the back/forward option.

fonduekid · 10-12-2008, 02:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pyr0000

but you dont have the back/forward option.

Ah.. missed that point.. yeah, this regedit gave that back/forward option.. thanks again anyways.. *bookmarked this thread*

pyr0000 · 10-12-2008, 02:47 AM

Thank you for letting me know there were new drives. i had been using some old drivers from some workstation but the new ones are much better

dseo80 · 10-12-2008, 04:26 AM

I assume back/forward is for like moving between webpages? I enabled in options, but it seems to just scroll as before. Is there a special gesure?

pyr0000 · 10-12-2008, 04:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pyr0000

Unfortunately Alps still will not recognize Firefox. To be able to use the "back and forward" slide gesture you will have to go here and download a firefox addon called nightly tester tools.
once installed, with in firefox go to tools>addons and click on options for Nightly tester tools.
the first check box is to "Use Custom Title" check that
and type in "Netscape" with a capitol N
And you are all done. if done properly you should have full features of the mouse. There will be times that back/forward wont work do to a very long title bar, but most of the time it works great.

in first post