F16 - a good experience - except Zenbook trackpad + couple of other things

[Philip Rhoades]

Mike,


On 2011-12-31 08:52, mike cloaked wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Philip Rhoades <phil at pricom.com.au> 
> wrote:
>
>> +1 from me too but has anyone got a solution to the Zenbook trackpad
>> hassles? (I am using XFCE) out and also:
>>
>
> What particular issues are you having with the trackpad - I don't 
> have
> that particular machine but I have startup commands to set touchpad
> parameters using
> 1) Edits to the 50-synaptics file in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/*conf
> along the lines of:
> Section "InputClass"
>         Identifier "touchpad catchall"
>         MatchIsTouchpad "on"
>         MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
>         Option "TapButton1" "1"
>         Option "TapButton2" "2"
>         Option "TapButton3" "3"
> EndSection
>
> This allows the touchpad to work even at the login greeter.
>
> and
> 2) In the start menu I have separate items such as


Which file is that? - it doesn't look like it should be:

   /etc/xdg/menus/xfce-applications.menu

Thanks,

Phil.


> synclient TapButton1=1
> synclient VertEdgeScroll=1
>
> and also to disable touchpad clicks whilst typing but keep touchpad
> dragging unaffected I have another line like:
> syndaemon -t -k -i 1 -d
>
> This ensures the touchpad functions I want still work in my xfce 
> desktop.
>
> Something similar may help you if these kinds of function are needed
> on your system?

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