Synaptics, one of if not the leading touchpad maker, has made possible future Chrome OS users quite happy. The company has announced that it is bringing multitouch gestures to Linux. The new Synaptics Gesture Suite for Linux will be available for free to OEMs that offer Linux laptops. The SGSL will have support for the more »

Ever since the release of the MacBook Air, Apple users have been able to flaunt the multiple uses of their notebook trackpads over the majority of Windows users. Multi-finger gestures have slowly come to some other laptop manufacturers, but have stayed mainly with Apple. Synaptics, the maker of TouchPads, the most popular trackpads in non-Apple laptops, is bringing some of those features to the rest of the laptop market.

There are four new features from Synaptics in its Synaptics Gesture Suite 2009: Two-Finger Scroll, Two-Finger Rotate, Two-Finger Pinch Zoom, and Three-Finger Flick. Most of them are pretty self-explanatory.