Re: Running from External Disk: trackpad question

["Jarod Wilson" <user=74@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 11:28 -0400, Kent Borg wrote: 
> Jarod Wilson wrote: 
> > I take it you're not aware of synclient... :) 
> 
> Actually, I did discover it, and I used it.  But any editing of 
> xorg.conf seems to require multiple attempts. 

Ah, ok. I just tweaked away with synclient, then dumped out its current 
values, transcribed into xorg.conf, disabled xshm and bounced X and was 
pretty much done with it. 

> > Its not the hardware, its the software. 
> 
> Yes, but some software is pretty inaccessable.  I have a laptop-style 
> USB keyboard that I use with my office computer at work.  (I like the 
> option of putting my feet up, keyboard in my lap.  Having a trackpad in 
> my lap is nicer than reaching up for a mouse.)  That trackpad doesn't 
> work as well as products Steve cracks his whip over, but I figure I am 
> stuck with it.  The software is pretty embedded. 

Okay, so its a combination of the hardware and the software. My main 
point was that the very same Steve-approved trackpad hardware which 
works swimmingly under Mac OS X doesn't behave nearly as well under 
Linux. 

> P.S.  How do you do circular scrolling on a non-circular trackpad?  On a 
> circular trackpad I can really crank, but without the edge to guide me, 
> I can't see there would be any point. 

Wait, you have a circular trackpad? Perhaps the square is part of why I 
don't like it -- I do rather like circular scrolling on the iPod, where 
there's an actual circle... :) 


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