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[Dinis Gökaydin <dgokaydin@xxxxxxxxx>]

Using Karmic here, so don't know if this still happens in Lucid.

2010/4/4 Albert Vilella <avilella@xxxxxxxxx>

> Hi all,
>
> Is the touchpad still incorrectly recognised in the beta version of Ubuntu?
> If so, it would be worth to submit a bug report to the corresponding
> xorg package:
>
> apt-cache search xorg | grep input
>
> choose the package, then do:
>
> apport-bug package-name
>
> and create submit the bug report via the browser,
>
> Cheers,
>
> Albert.
>
> 2010/4/4 Dinis Gökaydin <dgokaydin@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > Using xinput did the trick. I had actually tried using xinput but
> directly
> > on the (incorrectly recognised as) "ImPS/2 Logitech Wheel Mouse" but that
> > didn't work, and I didn't know how to use it on evdaemon.
> >
> > However, just as a curiosity, the middle button was indeed introduced by
> > evdaemon. Maybe that's related to the fact that my touchpad (I think it's
> an
> > elantech as most asus) is incorrectly recognised, and evdaemon actually
> > corrects what was wrong from the beginning.
> >
> > I still find it impossible to use two fingers for scrolling and a two
> finger
> > tap for pasting. Basically every time I want to scroll just a bit I paste
> > something. This can lead to serious diplomatic problems when writing
> > emails...
> >
> > Thanks Tuomas, congrats on a great tool!
> >
> > On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 7:31 PM, Tuomas Räsänen <tuos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> I'll continue this top-posting thread by top-posting, even though it
> >> gives me nasty shivers ;-). However, breaking the tradition now would
> >> probably result in a quite messy post..
> >>
> >> I think that the middle-button-paste is handled by Xorg and is it's
> >> default behavior. It has nothing to do with evdaemon. Evdaemon just
> >> clones a device and repeats it's events when the filtering is disabled
> >> and suppresses events when filtering is enabled. It does not alter
> >> device's behavior. So middle-button-paste works whether the evdaemon is
> >> running/installed or not. Just like selecting text copies it to X's
> >> clipboard.
> >>
> >> The middle-button-paste is quite handy, but can be easily disabled with
> >> xinput:
> >>
> >> Disable middle-button completely:
> >>  xinput set-button-map "evdaemon" 1 0
> >>
> >> Map middle-button to left-button:
> >>  xinput set-button-map "evdaemon" 1 1
> >>
> >> Map middle-button back to middle-button:
> >>  xinput set-button-map "evdaemon" 1 2
> >>
> >> and so on. See xinput's manpage.
> >>
> >> In the example above, I assumed that evdaemon's device name was the
> >> default "evdaemon". This is however configurable via evdaemon-admin or
> >> config-files. See the correct device name or id if evdaemon's name has
> >> been changed: xinput list | grep id.
> >>
> >> On Sat, 2010-04-03 at 14:43 +0100, Jonathan Wagner wrote:
> >> > Then perhaps Tuomas will chime in on disabling it. In fact, I was
> >> > really dissapointed when I realized that you couldn't click both the
> >> > right and left buttons, a common middle-click emulation) on the
> >> > touchpad due to the rocker design.  I installed evdaemon very shortly
> >> > after receiving the laptop, so I guess I didn't notice the added
> >> > middle-click functionality or lack there of by default.  If it is
> >> > evdaemon adding this, then three cheers to evdaemon.  Once you get
> >> > used to it, you just can't give it up.  I use Windows in VirtualBox
> >> > for some work applications and it pains me to no end when I highlight
> >> > text and middle-click to paste and nothing happens.  Even worse is
> >> > Xilinx's ISE software and it's lack of middle-click paste even though
> >> > it's running natively in Linux.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Anyway, hope you get things worked out.  Any out of the norm behavior
> >> > from our input devices can be a real pain.
> >> >
> >> > Jonathan Wagner
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > 2010/4/3 Dinis Gökaydin <dgokaydin@xxxxxxxxx>
> >> >         Thanks Jonathan.
> >> >
> >> >         I guess after 20 years of computers I've never used the middle
> >> >         button for anything... Regardless, the touchpad did not show
> >> >         this behaviour before I installed evdaemon, so it was most
> >> >         definitely introduced by it.
> >> >
> >> >         cheers
> >> >
> >> >         2010/4/3 Jonathan Wagner <jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >                 Middle click on a normal device pastes any highlighted
> >> >                 or copied text, so I think this is normal behavior.
> >> >                  If you're looking for scrolling then swipe with two
> >> >                 fingers.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >                 I'm not Tuomas, but I don't think his software has
> >> >                 this control (except maybe being able to disable
> >> >                 middle click?).
> >> >
> >> >                 Jonathan Wagner
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >                 2010/4/3 Dinis Gökaydin <dgokaydin@xxxxxxxxx>
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >                         Hi Tuomas,
> >> >
> >> >                         I'm a ul30vt user. I found your evdaemon
> >> >                         amazingly helpful.
> >> >
> >> >                         Unfortunately, installing it cause a strange
> >> >                         behaviour: when I double click with two
> >> >                         fingers - something that supposedly mimics the
> >> >                         behaviour of the mouse's middle button - it
> >> >                         pastes any text I have copied.
> >> >
> >> >                         This is unfortunately an even more annoying
> >> >                         problem than the accidental touches while
> >> >                         typing, so I had to uninstall evdaemon.
> >> >
> >> >                         Can you fix it? Thanks.
> >> >
> >> >                         Regards,
> >> >
> >> >                         Dinis
> >> >
> >> >                         2010/3/27 Tuomas Räsänen <tuos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> >
> >> >                                 On Fri, 2010-03-26 at 15:35 -0400,
> >> >                                 Prof. John C Nash wrote:
> >> >                                 > While I believe this is a very
> >> >                                 useful resource, it has many bugs and
> >> >                                 omissions. Can we
> >> >                                 > convert it to a wiki format, either
> >> >                                 here or elsewhere?
> >> >                                 >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >                                 Actually, there is already a wiki page
> >> >                                 dedicated to UL30A:
> >> >
> >> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LaptopTestingTeam/AsusUL30A
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >                                 > - the touchpad issue is a real nasty
> >> >                                 one. I've found and modified a tool to
> >> >                                 turn it off,
> >> >                                 > and could simplify the setup for
> >> >                                 other users.
> >> >                                 >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >                                 If you are interested, I wrote
> >> >                                 evdaemon
> >> >                                 ( http://codegrove.org/evdaemon/ ) to
> >> >                                 kill the pain with the touchpad
> >> >                                 ( it can also act as syndaemon for
> >> >                                 event devices in general). Because
> >> >                                 manually switching on/off the touchpad
> >> >                                 was not an option for me, I wrote
> >> >                                 evdaemon to switch on/off event
> >> >                                 devices during keyboard activity. It's
> >> >                                 Ubuntu-packaged in my PPA:
> >> >
> >> > https://launchpad.net/~tuos/+archive/codegrove<https://launchpad.net/%7Etuos/+archive/codegrove>
> >> >
> >> >                                 There is also a gui-tool for
> >> >                                 configuring the daemon:
> >> >                                 http://codegrove.org/evdaemon-admin/
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >                                 It has helped at least me and couple
> >> >                                 of my friends in this pain.
> >> >
> >> >                                 --
> >> >                                 Tuomas
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Tuomas
> >>
> >
> >
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