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]> >>>> --- >>>> 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. > > 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 :/ --Andy _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
