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T o n g

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Nov 21, 2009, 12:10:02 PM11/21/09
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Hi,

I installed xserver-xorg-input-synaptics, but found my synaptics touchpad
is not well configured. I.e., the side-scrolling, middle-click and right-
click etc, all not working properly. I tried Ubuntu 9.04, and everything
works as expected.

I'm wondering how Ubuntu does it, or, how I can have my synaptics
touchpad works as expected under Debian.

Thanks

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Celejar

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Nov 21, 2009, 7:40:01 PM11/21/09
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On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:04:10 +0000 (UTC)
T o n g <mlist4...@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I installed xserver-xorg-input-synaptics, but found my synaptics touchpad
> is not well configured. I.e., the side-scrolling, middle-click and right-
> click etc, all not working properly. I tried Ubuntu 9.04, and everything
> works as expected.
>
> I'm wondering how Ubuntu does it, or, how I can have my synaptics
> touchpad works as expected under Debian.

One easy way: look at gpointing-device-settings. One big problem with
it - at least in some cases (including my setup), at least some
settings aren't preserved across X sessions:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=530306

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T o n g

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Nov 22, 2009, 12:30:01 AM11/22/09
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On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:35:22 -0500, Celejar wrote:

>> I'm wondering how Ubuntu does it, or, how I can have my synaptics
>> touchpad works as expected under Debian.
>
> One easy way: look at gpointing-device-settings. One big problem with
> it - at least in some cases (including my setup), at least some settings
> aren't preserved across X sessions:

The gsynaptics doesn't have that problem, but another big problem with it
is that, the features can be set are way to limited.


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Celejar

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Nov 23, 2009, 5:20:02 PM11/23/09
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On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:25:31 +0000 (UTC)

T o n g <mlist4...@yahoo.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:35:22 -0500, Celejar wrote:
>
> >> I'm wondering how Ubuntu does it, or, how I can have my synaptics
> >> touchpad works as expected under Debian.
> >
> > One easy way: look at gpointing-device-settings. One big problem with
> > it - at least in some cases (including my setup), at least some settings
> > aren't preserved across X sessions:
>
> The gsynaptics doesn't have that problem, but another big problem with it
> is that, the features can be set are way to limited.

gpointing is "modern replacement for gsynaptics" (from the package
description of the latter).

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