Re: [9fans] Touchpad

2018-09-20 Thread hiro
lucio, i haven't come up with this insight on my own, so i'll carry on the light

Re: [9fans] Touchpad

2018-09-20 Thread Lucio De Re
On 9/20/18, hiro <23h...@gmail.com> wrote: > the point is there are more worthy things to do than to work around > shitty hardware or reproduce functionality that is already provided by > the bios in plan 9. > I couldn't agree more. But does it help to repeat that refrain, here? That could also be

Re: [9fans] Touchpad

2018-09-20 Thread Kurt H Maier
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Re: [9fans] Touchpad

2018-09-20 Thread hiro
the point is there are more worthy things to do than to work around shitty hardware or reproduce functionality that is already provided by the bios in plan 9.

Re: [9fans] Touchpad

2018-09-20 Thread DHAN HURLEY
YSTIC, etc. https://despora.de/people/6d39a7e04a610132027a42cdb1fcde73 From: Lucio De Re To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2018 2:19 PM Subject: Re: [9fans] Touchpad On 9/20/18, hiro <23h...@gmail.com> wrote: >

Re: [9fans] Touchpad

2018-09-20 Thread Lucio De Re
On 9/20/18, hiro <23h...@gmail.com> wrote: > doing it in plan 9 would be a waste of time. No argument, but a lot of time is being wasted all the time and 9fans, perhaps with some notable exceptions, need to feel good as much as the next person. > i don't know what's modern to you, but if you

Re: [9fans] Touchpad

2018-09-20 Thread Ethan Gardener
On Thu, Sep 20, 2018, at 9:25 AM, hiro wrote: > doing it in plan 9 would be a waste of time. I don't want to waste anyone's time, but I do remember wishing I could have different settings for different pointing devices on the same laptop. At the time, I had a bunch of Kensington mice which

Re: [9fans] Touchpad

2018-09-20 Thread hiro
doing it in plan 9 would be a waste of time. i don't know what's modern to you, but if you check the fqa you can see 9front is working on many thinkpads, even including wifi.

Re: [9fans] Touchpad

2018-09-19 Thread Lucio De Re
On 9/19/18, G B wrote: > I have 9front installed on a Lenovo N580 laptop and am using a USB mouse. > However, the touchpad is killing me. How can I disable the touchpad so only > the mouse moves? > Rather exciting, I'll keep an eye out for that option, Plan 9 (well, 9front, I do not think of

Re: [9fans] Touchpad

2018-09-19 Thread sl
> How can I disable the touchpad so only the mouse moves? bios sl

[9fans] Touchpad

2018-09-19 Thread G B
I have 9front installed on a Lenovo N580 laptop and am using a USB mouse.  However, the touchpad is killing me.  How can I disable the touchpad so only the mouse moves?