Linux desktop and high resolution laptops

[Peter Hutterer]

On 9/01/2015 19:11 , Peter Laursen wrote:
> What is not true? I have seen 2 recent Win8 laptops without edge scrool
> support. Are you telling that this is because Win8 ignores it?

touchpads only give you the position of a number of fingers.
anything past that is implemented in software. tapping, twofinger 
scrolling, edge scrolling - they're all pure software features. if Win8 
doesn't do it out of the box, then that's because they chose not to but 
it has nothing to do with the hardware.

Cheers,
   Peter

> On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 10:05 AM, drago01 <drago01 at gmail.com
> <mailto:drago01 at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 10:03 AM, Peter Laursen <jazcyk at gmail.com
>     <mailto:jazcyk at gmail.com>> wrote:
>     > The touchpad hardware on recent laptops designed for Win8 most often does no
>     > support edge scrolling (run finger along right side to scroll).
>
>     That's not true.
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