On Sun, May 08, 2011 at 09:58:44PM -0400, Brynet wrote: > Thanks to both of you, it works fairly well on my Acer Aspire 5551 laptop > with > Synaptics 7.2 firmware. > > What's the prefered method of configuration? xorg.conf/synclient or > xinput?
It depends on a lot of things. If you're using Gnome/KDE/XFCE and it has a builting configuration widget for synaptics, use whatever they provide. Otherwise, xorg.conf is good for defaults you want to keep for all users. The synclient program should be mostly useless now that xinput provides a device-independant way to configure input devices. Unfortunatly the 'xinput(1)' command is not really user-friendly, so synclient may still be useful in a .xsession or .xinitrc if someone wants to setup things for one session only. > > I use the following from .xintrc/.xsession: > synclient TapButton1=1 > synclient TapButton2=2 > synclient TapButton3=3 > synclient VertEdgeScroll=1 > synclient VertTwoFingerScroll=0 > syndaemon -d -t -K > > The sensitivity is a bit high for tap-to-click though, especially for buttons > 2 > and 3.. for bringing up cwm menu's, etc. There are several parameters (FingerLow/FingerHigh, MaxTapTIme, MaxDoubleTapTime) that can influnce this. Play with them. > > It's still something that has been missing for a long time, the physical > buttons are annoying to use on my laptop.. fortunately button 1 was > implemented > in the firmware (..and hence worked with xf86-input-mouse). That's not too hard to add to the emulation mode. I just don't want to add too many features to that mode (that would end up implementing the whole xf86-input-synaptics driver in the kernel). -- Matthieu Herrb
