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What do I have to do to get an Apple Magic Trackpad to "work" on a standard Debian Squeeze system?

Right now, the trackpad is connected to the machine over Bluetooth, and functions like a mouse: moving a finger on the surface moves the cursor, and pressing the physical buttons on the trackpad clicks appropriately. I'd like more functionality: specifically, tap-to-click and two-finger-scrolling. (Getting all the fancier multitouch gestures, like zoom/back/forward/etc. working would be nice, but definitely important.)

Kernel is the standard Debian 2.6.32-5-amd64. I have xserver-xorg-input-{all,evdev,synaptics} installed. The following is in /proc/bus/input/devices:

I: Bus=0005 Vendor=05ac Product=030e Version=0160
N: Name="jon’s trackpad"
P: Phys=00:02:72:21:36:85
S: Sysfs=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.2/2-1.2.3/2-1.2.3:1.0/bluetooth/hci0/hci0:11/input690
U: Uniq=C8:BC:C8:F8:FB:A4
H: Handlers=mouse3 event13 
B: EV=17
B: KEY=30003 0 0 0 0
B: REL=3
B: MSC=10

If anything else would be useful, I'm happy to post it.

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The most promising toolkit I've found is Fusuma:

Fusuma

A flexible way to configure multitouch gestures. You can emulate a lot of macOS functionality. 3 finger drag, swipe workspaces etc.

You can also setup application specific gestures.

Config is done in yaml, and the GitHub README has links to examples to help you get started.

Touchegg

Also, there is Touchegg. This has a similar feature set, and may be preferable to Fusuma for some.

Note: Fusuma has a dependency on Ruby, which may be a sticking point for some.

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