Hi everybody, The one reason I do not regret having bought my Vaio notebook is the work steadily being done and distributed in this list and associated web sites. Thanks to this, most of the issues have been solved.
There is one, however, which seems to have caught little attention, although there was a question here recently that got no answers. I can't understand why Sony could do so beautiful engineering on this notebook series, but used a substandard Alps touchpad. My complaint is that it lacks multi-touch. Several months ago, after realizing the problem, I found a workaround to get a comfortable middle-button; in a former notebook I used double touch. Pushing two buttons is usually uncomfortable, and, with a fingerprint reader in the middle, an ergonomic nightmare. The workaround was to define a window into the touchpad for the usual interpretation, and leaving space in the NW corner, so that a touch there could be bound to the middle-button. At he beginning of the year, I did it in xorg.conf . Then there was the upgrade to Ubuntu 9.04, and the configuration was moved into hal; somehow I figured it out. Now, 9.10 came out, and I don't know where the configuration is anymore, so I am currently pushing two buttons. I know that the question is more Alps+Ubuntu than Vaio, but it seems that Ubuntu is popular enough among the participants here. So here are a couple of help requests: a) Has anybody come out with a comfortable way of middle-click on this touchpad? I define "comfortable" in this context as "affording to smoothly point and middle-click". b) Otherwise, any hint on how to configure the touchpad? The standard utilities are useless, I probably have to edit some configuration file directly. Regards, Arnaldo Mandel _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~sony-vaio-z-series Post to : sony-vaio-z-series@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~sony-vaio-z-series More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp