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[Raphael Gradenwitz <raphael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Patrick,

Am Sonntag, den 27.12.2009, 10:48 +0100 schrieb Patrick Valdellon:
> Since I configured my touchpad today, and there seem to be open
> questions in the mailing-list archive (18 Nov 2009: Arnaldo Mandel,
> Mar 2009  Eric Webb) I'm telling my results.
> 

Thank you for sharing your experiences.

But don't you think this makes it unnecessary difficult since there are
tools with nice graphical front ends to setup almost all of this
settings on a per user basis activating its settings on the fly, without
need to restart hal or X:

The old tool (deprecated, X.org < 7.4) was Gsynaptics, storing its
settings in 
~/.gconf/desktop/gnome/peripherals/touchpad/%gconf.xml

and its successor (X.org > 7.4) is gpointing-device-settings, storing
its settings in 
~/.gconf/desktop/gnome/peripherals/@34@AlpsPS@47@2@32@ALPS@32@GlidePoint@34@/%gconf.xml

It can enable and disable touchpad, or srolling on it as well as
additional parameters like palm detection, locked drags, tapping and
(circular) scrolling.

Did I miss something?


> 
> <merge key="input.x11_options.LTCornerButton" type="string">2</merge>
> #middle-click by tapping in the top-left corner
> <merge key="input.x11_options.LBCornerButton" type="string">3</merge>
> #right-click by tapping in the left-bottom corner
> <merge key="input.x11_options.RTCornerButton" type="string">0</merge>
> <merge key="input.x11_options.RBCornerButton" type="string">0</merge>

OK, this looks different, assume this is Not supported in
gpointing-device-settings..(?)

Regards,

Raphael