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Re: Touchpad for z2

 

Learn something new everyday ;). I have been using the two finger tap, but
it appears that a tap on the right side of the click bar works as well.

Thanks.
Rob

On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 10:49 AM, Harry Percival
<harry.percival@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> fwiw, I can get a right click with a tap, as long as it's at the
> bottom-right of the touchpad (ie the right of the "button" area).
>
> a "proper" click doesn't work, unlike in windows.  but i'm quite used
> to the tapping now.
>
> I'm on a VPCZ21-C5E
>
> On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 4:54 PM, Rob Mukai <dothedog2010@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Vincent, Right click doesn't work for me either. However, you should be
> able
> > to tap with two fingers to right click. (Tap with three fingers gives
> you a
> > middle click). The other thing that doesn't work is click and drag.
> >
> > Rob
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 4:41 AM, Vincent Nivoliers
> > <vincent.nivoliers@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi all,
> >>  I'm new to this list, thank you very much for all the documentation
> >> you have posted so far. I had a few questions about the touchpad
> >> handling. I found the synclient configuration script that was posted
> >> here, and it surely improves things. So far I've tried two different
> >> debian installs, one debian squeeze (kernel 2.6.32) and one debian
> >> wheezy (kernel 3.2.0). Under squeeze, the behaviour is as expected,
> >> clicking on the right part of the pad is handled as right click. Under
> >> wheezy, any click is handled as left click. The difference between the
> >> two I believe is the usage of the synaptics driver, since in the squeeze
> >> version, synclient finds no loaded synaptics driver. I've tried looking
> >> for differences in the /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d folder, the evdev
> >> files are identical, and the synaptics file of the wheezy install only
> >> shows an additional InputClass identified by  "touchpad ignore
> >> duplicates".
> >>
> >>  Do you have any idea on how I could reproduce the behaviour of the
> >> squeeze install on the wheezy one ? Thanks in advance for your help,
> >> Vincent.
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