On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 09:29:37AM -0700, Chase Douglas wrote: > 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?
no, it's a bug. the speed shouldn't change when you plug a screen in. not sure yet what exactly causes it, but it's somewhere in the server, the acceleration the driver applies. Cheers, Peter _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
