On 2/02/13 09:28 , Andy Lutomirski wrote:
On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 3:22 PM, Peter Hutterer <[email protected]> wrote:
On 2/02/13 03:38 , Andy Lutomirski wrote:

On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 2:57 PM, Peter Hutterer
<[email protected]> wrote:

On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 08:21:02PM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:

I have a Lenovo laptop with a trackpoint and a touchpad.  I much
prefer the trackpoint for moving the cursor, but the touchpad is
handy for two-finger scrolling.  The Windows driver allows a mode
with gestures only on the touchpad; add such a mode in Linux too.
(Leaving the touchpad fully enabled is no good; palm detection is
spotty at best.)

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
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I'm a little surprised that this apparently can't be done in the XI2
core.  Is there a better way?


You should be able to get the same effect by setting ConstantDeceleration
on
your device to something really high (50 or so will likely do). The
touchpad
will still submit motion events, but x/y pointer movement will be slowed
down enough to never actually change.

would that work for you?


That seems to work.  The docs are a bit misleading IMO, though -- this
decelerates by a factor much more than 50.

Are there any easy-to-use hotplug-aware tools for setting XI2
properties on a per-device basis?  Doing this in xorg.conf seems kind
of sad.


why? that's what the InputClass sections were designed for - give you
configuration that works on a class of devices, even when hotplugged.

Privilege.  Editing xorg.conf requires root; setting XI2 properties does not.

fair enough.

your desktop environment could handle this in the client, but afaik none of
the major ones currently do set this particular setting.

If GNOME ever adds detailed controls like this, I'll be amazed :/

http://who-t.blogspot.com.au/2011/03/custom-input-device-configuration-in.html

no GUI, but it'll get the job done.

Cheers,
  Peter
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