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[Mactel-linux-users] synaptics: OS-X like touchpad

[Mildred <ml....@on...>]

Hi,

I recently found out that Mac OS X had a nice way to right-clock with
the touchpad. Just hold two fingers on the pad and click with the
button. So you are now able to right click w/o a tap. And more
useful ... you are able to move objects with the right mouse button.

So I thought this had to be implemented in synaptics. Ans I implemented
it (wasn't so difficult). Here is my patch for those who are interested.

I already sent it to Peter Osterlund who is I believe the maintainer of
synaptic ... and I didn't have any answers. So I give it to you who
might be interested.

Note that I only talked about right click, but there is also middle
click implemented. The man page is also patched, so you can see there
the new configuration options ClickFingerN where N is the number of
fingers you have on the pad (up to 3). The argument is an integer and
represents the mouse button (or à to disable).

My configuration have:

	Option	    "ClickFinger1" "1"
	Option	    "ClickFinger2" "3"
	Option	    "ClickFinger3" "2"

So, two fingers + clock results in a right click and three fingers +
click results in middle mouse button.

Mildred

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Re: [Mactel-linux-users] synaptics: OS-X like touchpad

[Tommaso V. <t.v...@ca...>]

Hi,
i use gentoo ~x86 and without your patch i can use two-finger click as 
right mouse click and three-finger click as middle mouse click...

this is the extract from /etc/X11/xorg.conf:

Section "InputDevice"
         Identifier      "Synaptics Touchpad"
         Driver          "synaptics"
         Option          "SendCoreEvents"        "true"
         Option          "Device"                "/dev/psaux"
         Option          "Protocol"              "auto-dev"
	Option 		"SHMConfig" 		"true"
	Option 		"LeftEdge" 		"100"
	Option 		"RightEdge" 		"1120"
	Option 		"TopEdge" 		"50"
	Option 		"BottomEdge" 		"310"
	Option 		"FingerLow" 		"5"
	Option 		"FingerHigh" 		"20"
	Option 		"MaxTapTime" 		"100"
	Option 		"MaxTapMove" 		"150"
	Option 		"MaxDoubleTapTime" 	"180"
	Option 		"VertScrollDelta" 	"20"
	Option 		"HorizScrollDelta" 	"50"
	Option 		"MinSpeed" 		"0.49"
	Option 		"MaxSpeed" 		"0.78"
	Option 		"AccelFactor" 		"0.0010"
	Option 		"LockedDrags"		"false"
	Option 		"TapButton1" 		"1"
	Option 		"TapButton2" 		"3"
	Option 		"TapButton3" 		"2"
	Option 		"VertTwoFingerScroll" 	"true"
	Option 		"HorizTwoFingerScroll" 	"false"
	Option 		"FastTaps" 		"true"
	Option 		"VertEdgeScroll" 	"false"
	Option 		"HorizEdgeScroll" 	"false"
EndSection

sorry if i misunderstood your mail...

Tommaso

Mildred ha scritto:
> Hi,
> 
> I recently found out that Mac OS X had a nice way to right-clock with
> the touchpad. Just hold two fingers on the pad and click with the
> button. So you are now able to right click w/o a tap. And more
> useful ... you are able to move objects with the right mouse button.
> 
> So I thought this had to be implemented in synaptics. Ans I implemented
> it (wasn't so difficult). Here is my patch for those who are interested.
> 
> I already sent it to Peter Osterlund who is I believe the maintainer of
> synaptic ... and I didn't have any answers. So I give it to you who
> might be interested.
> 
> Note that I only talked about right click, but there is also middle
> click implemented. The man page is also patched, so you can see there
> the new configuration options ClickFingerN where N is the number of
> fingers you have on the pad (up to 3). The argument is an integer and
> represents the mouse button (or à to disable).
> 
> My configuration have:
> 
> 	Option	    "ClickFinger1" "1"
> 	Option	    "ClickFinger2" "3"
> 	Option	    "ClickFinger3" "2"
> 
> So, two fingers + clock results in a right click and three fingers +
> click results in middle mouse button.
> 
> Mildred
> 
> 
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Re: [Mactel-linux-users] synaptics: OS-X like touchpad

[Jonas P. <cat...@gm...>]

Hi Tommaso,

On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 11:27 PM, Tommaso Visconti
<t.v...@ca...> wrote:
> i use gentoo ~x86 and without your patch i can use two-finger click as
> right mouse click and three-finger click as middle mouse click...
> [...]

I use gentoo ~x86 too and what you say is indeed correct, but
Mildred's hack (which I have not yet tested, although I certainly have
it on my todo-list) apparently adds the option to click the existing
mouse button WHILE holding two/three fingers on the mouse pad and
hence make it possible to also DRAG stuff with other mouse buttons. I
also suspect that this approach should make right/middle clicking more
more reliable (I certainly fail now and then unless I concentrate).
Personally, I don't need the drag option, but I'll happily swap if
this proves to be more reliable for right clicking.

I'd also appreciate an official option for swapping the horizontal
scroll direction - basically, permitting negative HorizScrollDelta
arguments. IMHO, the current implemention has backwards (at least for
my MBP).

                                     Best / Jonas