Pointer capture for touchpads?

[Ryan Rix]

On Tue 1 June 2010 7:01:29 pm Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Richard Zidlicky wrote:
> > It has somewhat nasty preconditions: requires either root privs for the
> > scroll/click control or Xserver access for enabling/disabling :( So I am
> > not sure how it could be intergated into the desktop.
> 
> Requiring X server access, in particular access to the X input 
properties, 
> is quite normal, kcm_touchpad also requires this, and I really see no
> reason  why this wouldn't be required. The root access is more of a
> problem: If there are no X input properties for those settings, the driver
> ought to be fixed to add those! Once we have X input properties for all
> the required settings, support for the Sentelic driver should probably be
> added to kcm_touchpad.
> 
>         Kevin Kofler

Once that need-root issue figured out, I can try to add support, and push 
the patches upstream.

Ryan Rix
kcm_touchpad maintainer
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