lubuntu - touchscreen gestures just move mouse

I am running Lubuntu 14.10, and my touchscreen does not function properly, it does not seem to recognize any gestures.

Where I expect it to scroll on a swipe, it just moves the mouse pointer. It always moves the mouse pointer and does nothing else.

I vaguely remember that in the beginning gestures used to work and I perhaps installed something that disabled this.

I have synclient TouchpadOff=1 in my .profile, I thought that this is the cause, but it does not seem so.