Re: Can't disable touchpad while typing with wsconsctl

2024-03-12 Thread Ulf Brosziewski
Try $ man wsmouse if you want to know whether the 'disable' option is what you are looking for. On 3/12/24 12:45, Anthony wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to disable the touchpad when typing with the keyboard, but I > can't find the documentation about the variables in /etc/wsconsctl.conf. >

Re: Thinkpad T530 touchpad 3-taps word-wise selection not working

2022-04-15 Thread Ulf Brosziewski
There is a bug in the tapping mechanism of the input driver, which affects exactly this type of input (the sequence of two taps and a third touch for dragging). It generates a button-up event too early. I'm preparing a patch. On 4/13/22 16:46, u...@mailo.com wrote: > Mouse/touchpad text

Re: laptop touchpad works fine for a while, then stops working

2022-01-28 Thread Ulf Brosziewski
gt; When X is first started or restarted the touchpad is fine, but after X >> has been running for "a while" (anywhere from 2 hours to some days), >> the touchpad will suddenly stop working. [[...]] > > In <https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc=164159599612382=1>, > Ulf B

Re: laptop touchpad works fine for a while, then stops working

2022-01-07 Thread Ulf Brosziewski
Identifier "wsmouse touchpad" > Driver "synaptics" > MatchIsTouchpad "on" > EndSection > % > > The reason I have an /etc/xorg.conf is to work around a different X > touchpad problem (which occurs for twm and ctwm window man

Re: TouchPad, right clicking, and cwm

2021-04-18 Thread Ulf Brosziewski
On 4/18/21 6:39 PM, tetrahe...@danwin1210.me wrote: > On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 08:56:59PM +0200, Ulf Brosziewski wrote: >> Unfortunately, that "trick" is no general solution because turning the >> "ClickPad" option off makes click-and-drag operations with two f

Re: TouchPad, right clicking, and cwm

2021-04-16 Thread Ulf Brosziewski
rt, and even if these data are available, they aren't passed to userland drivers in OpenBSD. Only wsmouse(4) makes use of them, but it doesn't offer that "click method" for touchpads - hardly anyone has asked for it. On 4/16/21 6:56 PM, tetrahe...@danwin1210.me wrote: > On Fri, Ap

Re: TouchPad, right clicking, and cwm

2021-04-15 Thread Ulf Brosziewski
Could you remove the "ClickPad" option from the configuration file and try two-finger clicks again? The combination of that option with the "ClickFinger" mechanism is broken, and you probably don't need it if you don't use "soft-button areas". Three-finger clicks should work - if your hardware

Re: Disable touchpad acceleration? (wsmouse)

2020-10-14 Thread Ulf Brosziewski
53fcb3 100644 > --- sbin/wsconsctl/mousecfg.h > +++ sbin/wsconsctl/mousecfg.h > @@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ extern struct wsmouse_parameters cfg_edges; >  extern struct wsmouse_parameters cfg_swapsides; >  extern struct wsmouse_parameters cfg_disable; >  extern struct wsmouse_parameters cfg_re

Re: Disable touchpad acceleration? (wsmouse)

2020-10-14 Thread Ulf Brosziewski
Could you tell us why it feels weird? If you are really serious about a completely "linear" response, you might want to try $ doas wsconsctl mouse0.param=34:0,35:0,36:0 This turns off noise filtering and deceleration (very low speeds are slowed down even further, which may be helpful if you

Kernel relinking on old boxen at every boot

2020-05-25 Thread ULF
ot; option e.g. like tune2fs sets a fsck every n-th boot, could KARL, just for very old machines be tuned, say, to be applied every 10/20 boots? Thank you very much for your attention. Ulf

Re: When will be created a great desktop experience for OpenBSD?

2019-05-14 Thread ULF
If from one side is true that many modern interfaces (mostly M$, though) are made for people who know nothing about computing, from one another is clear that some good ones (in terms of usability) help the user to keep concentrated on his work. On a mac, on a recent gnome, on a kde, etc. it's

Re: Thinkpad A285 mouse issues

2019-05-09 Thread Ulf Brosziewski
Could you please post a dmesg and your xorg.conf, and be a bit more specific about your observations? Does the problem only affect the touchpad, or all wsmouse devices? Does it occur regularly, always, sometimes? Does the mouse pointer just freeze, or is there random movement, or sluggish

Re: Touchpad - how to enable two-finger scrolling

2019-04-01 Thread Ulf Brosziewski
rface 0 "Intel xHCI root hub" rev 3.00/1.00 > addr 1 > "Intel 7 Series MEI" rev 0x04 at pci0 dev 22 function 0 not configured > puc0 at pci0 dev 22 function 3 "Intel 7 Series KT" rev 0x04: ports: 16 com > com4 at puc0 port 0 apic 2 int 19: ns16550a, 16 by

Re: Touchpad - how to enable two-finger scrolling

2019-03-31 Thread Ulf Brosziewski
If two-finger scrolling doesn't work out of the box, it usually means that the hardware is not supported, and no xorg.conf or wsmouse configuration will help (only pointer movement works because the touchpad emulates a PS2 mouse). Could you post the output of the dmesg command here? On 3/31/19

Re: trackpad reversed scrolling broken on -current

2019-03-25 Thread Ulf Brosziewski
The "ZAxisMapping" doesn't work for touchpads with a new kernel. For now, you can apply this workaround: Read out the scroll distance with wsconsctl (you must run it as root or create a doas(1) configuration for it). Here is an example: $ doas wsconsctl mouse.param=134 mouse.param ->

Re: MacBook 3.1 touchpad

2018-11-27 Thread Ulf Brosziewski
Hi Alex, you are out of luck with that hardware. There is no touchpad driver for it in OpenBSD, ubcmtp(4) only supports newer models. Regards, Ulf Am 11/27/18 um 10:33 PM schrieb Alex Mihajlov: > I try use synaptics, but when I use > Section "InputClass" > ...

Re: ThinkPad X220 Trackpoint Pointer Wheel Emulation Issues

2018-10-17 Thread Ulf Brosziewski
On 10/17/2018 06:21 PM, Jake Champlin wrote: > On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 09:45:52PM -0400, Charles Daniels wrote: >> First off, I'm new around here, so my apologies in advance if this is >> the wrong list or I've formatted something incorrectly. >> >> I've recently installed OpenBSD 6.3 on my

Re: wsmouse mapping button clicks

2018-05-14 Thread Ulf Brosziewski
gs from "Z axis" values). No kind of button mapping will help. If it's a workaround for you, you might enable middle-button emulation in X. On 05/14/2018 01:26 PM, Patrick Marchand wrote: > On 05/14, Ulf Brosziewski wrote: >> Would you mind to run >> $ xinput --te

Re: wsmouse mapping button clicks

2018-05-14 Thread Ulf Brosziewski
There is no button mapping in wsmouse, it just passes the button codes from the hardware drivers to userland. For X configuration options, please have a look at the ws, xorg.conf, and xinput man pages. The "ButtonMapping" option or the set-button-map command of xinput might be of interest here.

Re: 6.3/amd64 Thinkpad T530 touchpad problem (was ok in 6.2/amd64)

2018-04-23 Thread Ulf Brosziewski
ics(4) enabled via the xorg.conf you suggested > in <https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc=152435166200806=1>, the > touchpad works perfectly. (I haven't experimented with multitouch > gestures yet.) > > Thanks to both of you (IL and Ulf) for pointing me to the solution! > > ciao, >

Re: 6.3/amd64 Thinkpad T530 touchpad problem (was ok in 6.2/amd64)

2018-04-21 Thread Ulf Brosziewski
Does it make a difference if you use synaptics(4) as touchpad input driver? You can activate it by adding the following entry to /etc/xorg.conf (if the file isn't present, simply create it with these lines): Section "InputClass" Identifier "wsmouse touchpad" Driver

Re: How is the synaptics driver loaded in OpenBSD v6.2, thanks.

2018-03-27 Thread Ulf Brosziewski
The short answer is: The X server has hard-coded defaults, which can be overridden by configuration files, which are processed in a specific order - if they are present. Please see xorg.conf(5) for details. For customizing the settings, you have to *create* an /etc/xorg.conf file.

Re: New default setup for touchpads in X

2017-12-26 Thread Ulf Brosziewski
to reduce the values - which represent distances in device units - in order to increase the scroll speed (the relation is inversely proportional). And BTW, such a change would also reduce the threshold - in the current implementation, at least ;-) Regards, Ulf On 12/23/2017 08:12 PM, Matthias

Re: New default setup for touchpads in X

2017-12-20 Thread Ulf Brosziewski
On 12/20/2017 04:54 PM, Christoph R. Murauer wrote: > Hello Ulf ! > >> there seems to be a terminology problem here: Usually, >> "pinch gesture" refers to an input with two touches moving >> toward each other, or away from each other, and it doesn't >> in

Re: New default setup for touchpads in X

2017-12-18 Thread Ulf Brosziewski
that limit then, but possibly it's still too low for that hardware. Can you check whether tapping without force works better, and also test it with the synaptics driver (which has a much higher threshold)? Cheers, Ulf On 12/17/2017 11:55 PM, Christoph R. Murauer wrote: > Hello Ulf ! >

Re: New default setup for touchpads in X

2017-12-11 Thread Ulf Brosziewski
On 12/10/2017 09:10 PM, Lari Rasku wrote: > Ulf Brosziewski kirjoitti 12/06/17 klo 00:59: >> please consider giving ws a try, and help >> us by reporting problems if it doesn't work for you. > > ws(4) seems to have much higher limiting friction for me when two-finger > sc

Re: New default setup for touchpads in X

2017-12-10 Thread Ulf Brosziewski
with it). BTW, xorg configuration files in /usr/X11R6/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/ aren't necessarily named "xorg.conf". The files in that directory only need the ".conf" extension, and an old version of 70_synaptics.conf (or an ancient 50_synaptics.conf) would change the driver assi

Re: New default setup for touchpads in X

2017-12-10 Thread Ulf Brosziewski
ranslated into a series of button events, which is coarse compared to coordinate-based scrolling.) Regards, Ulf > [...] If all works as it should, I also could > try it on a MacBook Pro the next days. > > thinkpad-w541# wsconsctl | grep 'mouse' > wsconsctl: Use explicit arg to view k

Re: New default setup for touchpads in X

2017-12-05 Thread Ulf Brosziewski
e on ThinkPad T470s. > > On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 3:59 PM, Ulf Brosziewski <ulf.brosziew...@t-online.de >> wrote: > >> If you're following -current, or if you upgrade your system with the >> next or a future snapshot, please note that the default setup for >> touchp

New default setup for touchpads in X

2017-12-05 Thread Ulf Brosziewski
If you're following -current, or if you upgrade your system with the next or a future snapshot, please note that the default setup for touchpads in X will change. X will select ws(4) instead of synaptics(4) as default driver. In a configuration with ws, touchpad-specific input processing is done

Atmel and Elantech Touchpads

2017-10-28 Thread Ulf Brosziewski
The hardware drivers for Atmel touchpads (iatp) and the older Elantech models (pms, for versions 1-3) have been updated in -current. If anybody is using a laptop with one of those models, tests with the next snapshots would be welcome, ideally with both synaptics(4) and the wsmouse-internal input

Re: touchpad input driver: test results

2017-08-20 Thread Ulf Brosziewski
with the input driver up to now. I hope this will change soon. It's not ready yet, but some work on imt/hidmt has already been done, with help of Remi. Thanks again for the friendly, competent, and helpful feedback! On 07/31/2017 11:02 PM, Ulf Brosziewski wrote: > In the long run the synaptics driver

Re: touchpad input driver: testing needed

2017-08-09 Thread Ulf Brosziewski
On 08/10/2017 01:47 AM, Ulf Brosziewski wrote: > On 08/09/2017 02:12 PM, Matthias Schmidt wrote: >> Hi, >> >> >> * Marcus MERIGHI wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> just as Josh I have a X220 which works fine, thanks! >>> >>> note

Re: touchpad input driver: testing needed

2017-08-09 Thread Ulf Brosziewski
ted. Interestingly my touchpad keeps > scrolling when I lift my fingers. > Hi, are you sure that this isn't just Firefox trying to catch up with your inputs? I may actually look like the "coasting" feature. Thanks for the feedback, Ulf > $ doas wsconsctl | grep 'mouse' &

Re: touchpad input driver: testing needed

2017-08-09 Thread Ulf Brosziewski
Hi, thanks for testing and for these hints. You are not the first one who thinks that scrolling is a bit slow. I will consider increasing the default speed, but such a change would need some checks because the speed is not uniform on different touchpads - which is due to the fact that many

Re: touchpad input driver: testing needed

2017-08-07 Thread Ulf Brosziewski
Hi, unfortunately, the input driver won't work in this configuration, but I hope we can change that soon ;-) On 08/07/2017 09:16 PM, Michele Curti wrote: > On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 11:02:28PM +0200, Ulf Brosziewski wrote: >> >> If you have a new snapshot (from July 27 or lat

Re: touchpad input driver: testing needed

2017-08-07 Thread Ulf Brosziewski
ag operations, newer versions to both click-and-drag and two-finger scrolling. The wsmouse driver implements a different approach: when it receives multi-touch data - up to now, from Apple or Elantech-4 models - it assigns pointer-control to touches that are moving (if such a touch exists). Regards

Re: touchpad input driver: testing needed

2017-08-06 Thread Ulf Brosziewski
On 08/05/2017 11:10 PM, Paul de Weerd wrote: > Hi Ulf, > > On Fri, Aug 04, 2017 at 11:26:12PM +0200, Ulf Brosziewski wrote: > | Hi Paul, > | > | thanks for your help. Does tapping work when you use > | the synaptics driver? > > Nope, it doesn't. > which

Re: touchpad input driver: testing needed

2017-08-04 Thread Ulf Brosziewski
nd neither one-, two-, nor three-finger taps work? Regards, Ulf On 08/04/2017 11:24 AM, Paul de Weerd wrote: > Hi Ulf, > > This really helps a lot on my touchpad. I used to have the following > config: > > Section "InputClass" > Identifier "

Re: touchpad input driver: testing needed

2017-08-03 Thread Ulf Brosziewski
2017 01:32 PM, Remi Locherer wrote: > On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 11:02:28PM +0200, Ulf Brosziewski wrote: >> for you. As always, a dmesg would be appreciated. The output of >> # wsconsctl | grep 'mouse' >> could also be of interest here (you must run it as root). >

Re: touchpad input driver: testing needed

2017-08-03 Thread Ulf Brosziewski
Thanks a lot. Again, there seems to be a misunderstanding concerning the 'swapsides' flag. I have described its meaning in my answer to Tom, and I hope it's clearer this time. On 08/03/2017 06:30 PM, Bruno Flueckiger wrote: > I've tested it on my HP ProBook 450 G3 with the snapshot from July

Re: touchpad input driver: testing needed

2017-08-03 Thread Ulf Brosziewski
0x61 > spkr0 at pcppi0 > vmm0 at mainbus0: VMX/EPT > efifb at mainbus0 not configured > uhub3 at uhub1 port 1 configuration 1 interface 0 "Intel Rate Matching > Hub" rev 2.00/0.00 addr 2 > ugen0 at uhub3 port 4 "Broadcom Corp BCM20702A0" rev 2.00/1.12 addr 3 >

Re: touchpad input driver: testing needed

2017-08-03 Thread Ulf Brosziewski
Thanks for the report. The speed of scrolling is indeed independent of the scale factor. Internally, these are distinct settings. (I've been vaguely considering to couple them, but there is nothing settled yet; it might be a bad idea if the initial values don't match). As to the pointer

Re: touchpad input driver: testing needed

2017-08-01 Thread Ulf Brosziewski
press 1 > button release 1 > button press 1 > button release 1 > button press 3 > button release 3 > button press 1 > button release 1 > button press 1 > button release 1 > button press 3 > button release 3 > button press 3 > button release 3 > &

Re: touchpad input driver: testing needed

2017-08-01 Thread Ulf Brosziewski
-4620,5140,-150,6600,0,0,0 > Would you mind to report the output of the following command? # wsconsctl mouse1.tp.param=64,65 And special thanks again for all your work, Ulf On 08/01/2017 05:13 PM, Bryan Vyhmeister wrote: > On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 05:37:00PM -0700, Bryan Vyhmeister wrote

Re: touchpad input driver: testing needed

2017-08-01 Thread Ulf Brosziewski
Hi, thanks for testing! Does "NOT OK" mean that two-finger scrolling works badly, or that it doesn't work at all? If possible, could you record the output of $ xinput --test /dev/wsmouse0 for a short period of time and perform the scroll gesture? Ulf On 08/01/2017 11:09 AM, Olivi

touchpad input driver: testing needed

2017-07-31 Thread Ulf Brosziewski
In the long run the synaptics driver, which handles touchpad inputs in X, may be a dead end of the input framework, and it's time to prepare an alternative. The kernel contains an internal touchpad input driver now, it's a part of wsmouse(4). It provides standard features - two-finger/edge

Re: Is there such a thing as a fanless OpenBSD-capable laptop?

2016-06-14 Thread Ulf Brosziewski
On 06/14/2016 11:58 PM, frantisek holop wrote: > ropers, 14 Jun 2016 03:37: >>> the acer travelmate b115-m is an el cheapo netbook >>> with no moving parts if you stick an ssd in it. >>> >> >> Thanks for the addition and dmesg. Do you know if all the Travelmate B115's >> are fanless or only the M

Re: Acer Aspire V5-571 WiFi card and Click Pad help

2016-05-15 Thread Ulf Brosziewski
X doesn't recognize the touchpad as clickpad automatically. Open an X-terminal and enter $ synclient ClickPad=1 This will enable click-and-drag/select actions with two fingers. For emulating left-clicks with tapping, enter $ synclient TapButton1=1 and for right-clicks with two-finger

Re: Dell XPS13 9333 Touchpad doesn't work

2016-05-06 Thread Ulf Brosziewski
Hi, it might be that you are out of luck with your hardware. If I'm not mistaken, it has a Cypress touchpad, which isn't supported. On 05/06/2016 05:16 AM, Gabriel Guzman wrote: > Hello misc@ > > I have a Dell XPS 13 9333 that I recently installed OpenBSD on. For the > most part everything runs

Re: Several hardware issues on 13" MacBook Pro 2015

2016-04-09 Thread Ulf Brosziewski
Hi, the hardware driver for your touchpad model isn't up-to-date yet. I believe it's not much that's missing, so maybe it will be changed soon. On 04/09/2016 05:24 AM, Joe Schillinger wrote: > Hi, > > New OpenBSD user here, I decided to install OpenBSD 5.9 (now on -current) on > my MacBook

Re: touchpad slight regression (snap: 20141121-20150217)

2015-02-27 Thread Ulf Brosziewski
coordinates set to zero in this case, and this is what the patches are about. On 02/27/2015 08:40 PM, patrick keshishian wrote: Hi, On 2/26/15, Ulf Brosziewskiulf.brosziew...@t-online.de wrote: On 02/27/2015 03:31 AM, Ulf Brosziewski wrote: ... It might be that the following patch to wsmouse.c

Re: touchpad slight regression (snap: 20141121-20150217)

2015-02-26 Thread Ulf Brosziewski
On 02/26/2015 06:06 PM, patrick keshishian wrote: On 2/26/15, Ulf Brosziewskiulf.brosziew...@t-online.de wrote: On 02/26/2015 02:32 AM, patrick keshishian wrote: On 2/25/15, Ulf Brosziewskiulf.brosziew...@t-online.de wrote: ... Hi Patrick, thanks for the reply. What I meant

Re: touchpad slight regression (snap: 20141121-20150217)

2015-02-26 Thread Ulf Brosziewski
On 02/26/2015 02:32 AM, patrick keshishian wrote: On 2/25/15, Ulf Brosziewskiulf.brosziew...@t-online.de wrote: On 02/25/2015 11:53 PM, patrick keshishian wrote: Hi, On 2/25/15, joshua steinj...@openbsd.org wrote: On Tue, 24 Feb 2015 at 12:32:10 -0800, patrick keshishian wrote: I'm

Re: touchpad slight regression (snap: 20141121-20150217)

2015-02-26 Thread Ulf Brosziewski
On 02/26/2015 11:12 PM, patrick keshishian wrote: On 2/26/15, Ulf Brosziewskiulf.brosziew...@t-online.de wrote: On 02/26/2015 06:06 PM, patrick keshishian wrote: On 2/26/15, Ulf Brosziewskiulf.brosziew...@t-online.de wrote: On 02/26/2015 02:32 AM, patrick keshishian wrote: On 2/25/15, Ulf

Re: touchpad slight regression (snap: 20141121-20150217)

2015-02-26 Thread Ulf Brosziewski
On 02/27/2015 03:31 AM, Ulf Brosziewski wrote: ... It might be that the following patch to wsmouse.c solves the problem with the new version of wsconscomm. Tests would be welcome (I could only verify that the patch does no harm to other touchpad types, i.e., Elantech-v4 and Alps Glidepoint

Re: touchpad slight regression (snap: 20141121-20150217)

2015-02-26 Thread Ulf Brosziewski
On 02/25/2015 11:53 PM, patrick keshishian wrote: Hi, On 2/25/15, joshua steinj...@openbsd.org wrote: On Tue, 24 Feb 2015 at 12:32:10 -0800, patrick keshishian wrote: I'm noticing slight annoyance with recent update from 20141121 snapshot to 20150217. My touchpad, while two-finger scrolling

Re: touchpad slight regression (snap: 20141121-20150217)

2015-02-25 Thread Ulf Brosziewski
On 02/25/2015 11:53 PM, patrick keshishian wrote: Hi, On 2/25/15, joshua steinj...@openbsd.org wrote: On Tue, 24 Feb 2015 at 12:32:10 -0800, patrick keshishian wrote: I'm noticing slight annoyance with recent update from 20141121 snapshot to 20150217. My touchpad, while two-finger scrolling

Re: Lastet supported jdk on OpenBSD

2008-05-17 Thread Ulf
On Fri, 16 May 2008 21:03:17 -0300 John Nietzsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear users, i would like to add support for java on my 4.3 openbsd desktop. Has anybody already done so? May you point a url where i could download the package(s) from? As others have pointed out, instruction are in

Re: Getting envolved

2007-12-13 Thread Ulf
a functional OBSD desktop. The installer and package management are easy for someone with basic understanding of some the concepts common in all Unix-like systems. Living with poorly documented hardware, some laptops or a box you don't put together yourself, can be a much harder experience. - Ulf

Re: Hardware support IDE to USB adapter

2007-11-27 Thread Ulf
relevance but (similar?) problems with Western Digital 'MyBook' usb drives has been reported on FreeBSD 6.1 (patched and solved?). http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=99419 - Ulf

Re: OpenBSD Install Goal

2007-09-20 Thread Ulf G. Noren
to OpenBSD and I do find most things a little difficult. Installation was the easy part :-) - Ulf