Here's a little experiment I threw together.
First of all, sorry about the huge quantity of babbling. In short, you
can jump to the bottom, apply the patch and say what you think.
In long (with chapters :P):
The background (rationale?):
The mouse is a successful input
On Feb 9, 2009, at 3:58 PM, Dylan McCall wrote:
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I originally submitted this as an upstream feature request + patch, but
the folks there convinced me that it was a bit too crazy (and untested)
of an idea for them, though it may make sense somewhere closer to a
desktop... So I am posting here
On Mon, 2009-02-09 at 07:58 -0800, Dylan McCall wrote:
Sounds nice (similar behaviour to using an iPhone or G1, I assume),
but...
To enable this, run synclient PointerGlide=1.
This requires SHMConfig, which is a security Bad Thing. Many of the
things accessible through synclient are moving to
Interesting idea.
I've uploaded a patched version of xserver-xorg-input-synaptics for
Intrepid to my PPA (https://launchpad.net/~rainct/+archive/ppa), where
it should be available in some hours. Note that I haven't tried it; if
the package lets your computer explode don't blame me :).
By the
It isn't /required/ to use synclient and SHMConfig; one can use the
configuration in xorg.conf if he wants. For temporary fiddling,
though, synclient is a nice and simple way to get the friction
settings just right.
The patch is a bit troublesome because some of it is in a list of
variables that
