On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 08:05:51AM -0400, Paul Fox wrote: > > > > We can use Xkb/AccessX's "MouseKeys" accessibility feature to provide an > > easy work-around for many of our touchpad problems. MouseKeys is easy to > > hi michael -- nice work. have you seen this thread on olpcnews? > http://olpcnews.com/forum/index.php?topic=1996.msg16070#msg16070 > > someone did a lot of similar work to enable using those keys as mouse > when the laptop is in tablet mode (to regain a pointing device in that > mode). i haven't looked at it closely, but it might be worth > taking a look at if you haven't. > > paul
Paul, I was unaware of that superior prior work; thanks for pointing it out! Would someone with a jumpy touchpad be willing to try it out so we can have better information about whether it leads to a usable work-around? (If so, then we can start looking closely at how to merge it.) Michael _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel