On Tue, 2011-07-05 at 11:02 +0530, Arun Khan wrote: > On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 11:05 PM, Roshan George <[email protected]> wrote: > > .......... snip ............. > > I am not a GNOME user. On my KDE 4.5 desktop, I am able to get the > "middle" button effect by pressing L+R buttons of the mousepad (it is > an old Compaq laptop).
This feature is available in Gnome as well. However, I wished to merely tap my fingers on the touchpad. It's much easier than pressing both buttons and allows me to scroll (with 2 fingers) and copy paste easily. I understand this is possible in KDE as well, but not in Gnome. > Create a group and give that group sudo access to "synclient". Add > all your laptop users to that group. Sadly, I don't know of a way to detect when the computer is returning from sleep. Running the script manually is inelegant and frustrating. Anyway, while searching through bug lists for this, I found Yuri Khan's PPA: https://launchpad.net/~yurivkhan/+archive/ppa . Apparently, the story is that the Gnome developers, in their infinite wisdom, decided that gnome-settings-daemon must ignore hal and ignore the driver's recommendations, implement its own hard-coded defaults, and finally not provide any gconf settings to switch this back. The recommended solution, apparently, is to upgrade to Gnome 3.2. Fortunately, our hero, Yuri Khan, has patched g-s-d to act in a sane manner. Praise be to him. Regards, -- Roshan George <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
