On Tue, 2002-03-05 at 10:48, Rog�rio Brito wrote:
> 
>       Dear people,
> 
>       Some weeks ago, I got myself a new iBook 600 combo and it
>       works well, but I still have one problem with it, namely, its
>       trackpad behaviour.
> 
>       I happen to actually like tapping in the trackpad area for
>       double clicks and dragging windows. I don't like the "lock"
>       behaviour, which requires me an extra "click" to "drop the
>       windows".
> 
>       But here comes my problem: when I use "trackpad drag", say I
>       double-tap the title bar of a window, drag it to the desired
>       position and lift my finger from the trackpad.
> 
>       After I lift my finger from the trackpad, the mouse cursor is
>       still kept in the "move mode" for an amount of time, before it
>       reverts to the "pointing mode", i.e, the window is not
>       "dropped".  During this (short, but annoying) delay, it seems
>       that the events that I generate in the trackpad are ignored.
> 
>       I would prefer that the cursor changed from the "move move" to
>       the "pointing mode" as soon as I lifted my finger from the
>       trackpad. Is it possible to change this behaviour via software
>       or is it a limitation of the hardware?


The trackpad utility in the powerpc-utils package can change this
behaviour.

Has anybody tested the powermac-utils startup scripts ?

Cheers

-- 
/Bastien Nocera
http://hadess.net

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