From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A1381381F3 for ; Sat, 6 Apr 2013 19:15:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E59B9E08AC; Sat, 6 Apr 2013 19:15:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com [209.132.183.28]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C157E089F for ; Sat, 6 Apr 2013 19:15:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from int-mx12.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx12.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.25]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r36JFGGo031664 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Sat, 6 Apr 2013 15:15:16 -0400 Received: from [10.10.55.174] (vpn-55-174.rdu2.redhat.com [10.10.55.174]) by int-mx12.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r36JFF85028098 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Sat, 6 Apr 2013 15:15:16 -0400 Message-ID: <1365275714.2245.29.camel@localhost> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse Pad & X11 From: Randy Barlow To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2013 15:15:14 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20130406164814.GD3132@solfire> References: <20130406063255.GB3132@solfire> <1365261662.2245.8.camel@localhost> <20130406164814.GD3132@solfire> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.68 on 10.5.11.25 X-Archives-Salt: e59f0c10-7c7f-4c9b-b3b4-c8f3f9e2b18e X-Archives-Hash: 8cb6d16ef3f1212004db7272458a7a47 On Sat, 2013-04-06 at 18:48 +0200, meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote: > "One touch scrolling" and "2 fingers tap = scroll" is a > contradiction, isn't it? Haha, yeah it is confusing sounding. Perhaps one touch scrolling means you can scroll by using a single finger on the right side of the pad? A lot of trackpads work that way, or can be configured to work that way. > Is there anything I have to configure (xorg.conf?) additionally? I remember there being some kind of "z axis" setting, or something perhaps a little along those lines in xorg.conf. To be honest, it's been years since I last did anything with an xorg.conf since the modern Xorg is much better at automatically configuring itself, so I'm afraid I can't help you much in that department. One way that might be easy but depends on your desktop environment, is to check if there is an easy to use setting provided by your DE that can configure two finger scrolling. For example, I'm currently using Gnome 3.6 in Fedora (yeah, not Gentoo, but I'm on my work computer :) ) and I have a "Two finger scroll" checkbox in the "Mouse & Touchpad" section of the System Settings program. There's also a checkbox for "Tap to click". I use Gnome 2 stable on my home Gentoo computer, and I *think* it may have something similar, but I'm not there to verify (and it's a desktop computer with no trackpad so I've never used that feature there.) I used to use KDE in Gentoo at my previous job, and I believe it had something similar in its settings but I don't have any current KDE installs to check it with. If you aren't using either of those, perhaps your DE provides something like that too. If not, perhaps someone else on here will chime in :) > Thank you very much for any help in advance! No problem, and apologies that it's not super complete. I'm more of a backend kind of dude, so my familiarity with DE stuff is mostly from a user's perspective (i.e., GUI configuration). -- Randy Barlow