On Oct 15, 2014, at 1:28 PM, Ken Moffat <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 10:32:47PM -0500, Dan McGhee wrote: >> >> On Oct 14, 2014, at 9:52 PM, Ken Moffat <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> The only trackpad I’ve used is on the iMac that I bought six days ago. I >> don’t know if they all work the same or not. All I have to do is depress >> the pad with one finger and drag. That’s obviously analogous to “left click >> and drag.” Right click is two fingers and depress the pad. I wonder if >> “SHIFT-one finger drag (and maybe depress the pad) would work to select. >> Then the “right click” analogue to paste. This is outside of X. >> > > We might be talking about different things. This is a netbook, it > has a pad which works like a mouse plus two buttons (or keys). When > I added the Emulate3Buttons option to the pointer section of my > evdev.conf it made no difference, I had to add it to the touchpad > section. > > But I'm happy to leave mac hardware to you ;-) Aaaaaah. More clarity. Quite simply, I have the same thing on my HP notebook and can’t get it to work with gpm. Had to go find my usb mouse and all is well. The Mac stuff might be fun. I’ve already started thinking about how to get bluetooth keyboards and “magic trackpads” to work in linux. But that project is far down the road. I’ve got to defeat, if I can, the Microsoft-HP-UEFI coalition—or at least call a truce, which is rapidly becoming the only apparent option. Dan -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
