On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 02:36:26AM -0800, Ian Zimmerman wrote: [...] > > Yes, Xorg works without configuration - for some value of "works". On > pretty much any laptop, one needs to at least configure the synaptics > touchpad. The defaults for that are unusable (no tapping, hence no way > to middle-click, very hard to double-click if you're not dexterous). > > The desktops have their GUI tools to configure that, but guess what? > None of the desktops goes beyond the most trivial settings, in the case > of Gnome I think it's just left-handed vs right-handed and that's it. > So, still unusable without manual configuration. And what if I don't > use a desktop? That's probably a regression in GNOME, as last year, upstream was blogging about GNOME configuration [1], and it was exposing most of the features.
> And I'm leaving out the keyboard which has similar issues, and also > similar nonsolutions. FWIW both keyboard and mouse configuration is explained in X Strike Force's documentation [2], and you don't need an xorg.conf, but only some snippets. > > Go ahead and remove dexconf, better no tool than a totally broken one, > but please consider adding a flexible, transparent and > desktop-independent tool to configure the above. Doesn't your-favorite-editor and /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ fill that gap ? 1: http://who-t.blogspot.com/2010/06/incomplete-roundup-of-touchpad-features.html 2: http://pkg-xorg.alioth.debian.org/howto/configure-input.html My two cents, -- Julien Viard de Galbert <jul...@vdg.blogsite.org> http://silicone.homelinux.org/ <jul...@silicone.homelinux.org> GPG Key ID: D00E52B6 Published on: hkp://keys.gnupg.net Key Fingerprint: E312 A31D BEC3 74CC C49E 6D69 8B30 6538 D00E 52B6
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