On 04/02/2012 08:28 PM, Martin Spacek wrote: > Hello, > > About a year ago, Chase Douglas suggested I post about this here. I've only > recently become annoyed enough to finally do so. > > When I add a secondary monitor horizontally to my primary one, my synaptics > touchpad (on a Thinkpad W510) becomes much more sensitive horizontally than > vertically. If I add the secondary monitor vertically, it becomes more > sensitive > vertically than horizontally. Others have reported the same issue on > different > machines. Here are the relevant bug reports: > > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31636 > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/xorg-driver-synaptics/+bug/726832 > > Surely this can't be a design feature, can it? No other input devices > (external > mouse or trackpoint, both via evdev apparently) behave this way, and neither > does the touchpad in Windows. This essentially breaks the touchpad for me on > a > multi-monitor setup. Fortunately, when plugged into an external monitor, > there's > usually access to an external mouse, which is perhaps why this one has flown > under the radar for so long. This bug has been around for coming up to a year > and a half. Could someone maybe have a look at it?
I have heard from a few people that they actually prefer this behavior. I think we either need to stick with what we have or make it configurable (and maybe change the default). Peter, any thoughts? -- Chase _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
