| Summary: | systemsettings doesn't have touchpad/trackpoint related settings | ||
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| Product: | [Applications] systemsettings | Reporter: | Saurav Sarkar <saurav.sarkar> |
| Component: | kcm_mouse | Assignee: | Marie Loise Nolden <nolden> |
| Status: | RESOLVED LATER | ||
| Severity: | wishlist | CC: | bcooksley, budinero, cfeck, cuisineconcepts, daniel, de.techno, desintegr, gandalflechner, glua, kde, kde, m.wege, rockonthemoonfm, shawn.starr, sven.burmeister, unggnu, xavier.vello, yamane |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | unspecified | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
| Sentry Crash Report: | |||
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Description
Saurav Sarkar
2009-04-13 22:31:22 UTC
Reassigning to mouse module. *** Bug 183665 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** It should be even more useful to have a generic xinput configuration like gxinput [http://dev.vostok6.net/gxinput/] than something specialised for synaptics touchpads. *** Bug 188877 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 217255 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** @Christoph: You marked my bug-report as duplicate. In this case, it would be good to add the trackpoint to the decription of the bug, so that it is not forgotten. IMHO, this feature is very important, because tap/scrolling is disabled by default on xserver and the obvious place to try enable is in: Systemsettings --> General tab --> Keyboard & Mouse. At this moment, the only way to enable it is using synclient on each system start or installing gpointing-device-settings (but it's not restore the config on each reboot): http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=559233 *** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. *** *** Bug 221782 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** This is working for me: http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php/kcm_touchpad?content=113335. @Facundo: If this tool would be extend for also providing trackpoint settings, it would be fine for me too. A friend of mine showed me synaptiks: http://synaptiks.lunaryorn.de/ Are there any reasons why neither one of this two ready to use apps are included into KDE? Neither of the authors have asked for inclusion (yet). *** Bug 279494 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 290941 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** After 3 years, 7 duplicated bugs and one "confirmed by popular votes", this feature is still missing on KDE. I believe that it's important for "new users". At least an option to turn the touchpad off would be very helpfull. There are some Thinkpad models which do not have the option to do this in the Bios. So this is a real problem then. The KDE developers might like to merge synaptiks (kde-config-touchpad). And please this's not a wishlist, this's a bug. By this definition of wishlist, adding support for keyboard and mouse is also a wishlist. synaptiks needs PyKDE, PyQt4 and other python related bindings stuff, so it adds a whole lot of dependencies (possibly even circular), so I doubt that it would be a preferable solution inside KDE SC. No need for such a lot of dependencies: pretty much everything is handled by xinput now. In case it's useful, here is a script that works, for me, to enable an external USB-ultranav keyboard to have emulated wheel. This demonstrates that xinput is sufficient, but that the magic required is a little ugly. In the meantime, if KDE system settings isn't changing soon, can I suggest at least a help link crosreferencing "man xinput". #Trackpoint middle button. #Annoyingly, there are 2 identically named devices. We want the first one. xinput asks us to use the id, but this changes. THE_ID=$(xinput list | grep "Synaptics Inc. Composite TouchPad / TrackPoint" | grep -oE 'id=[0-9]+' | head -n 1 | cut -f 2 -d '=' ) THE_ID2=$(xinput list | grep "Synaptics Inc. Composite TouchPad / TrackPoint" | grep -oE 'id=[0-9]+' | tail -n 1 | cut -f 2 -d '=' ) #And with a newer model of the same KB, this one: THE_ID3=$(xinput list | grep "Lite-On Technology Corp. ThinkPad USB Keyboard with TrackPoint" | grep -oE 'id=[0-9]+' | head -n 1 | cut -f 2 -d '=' ) xinput set-int-prop $THE_ID "Evdev Wheel Emulation" 8 1 xinput set-int-prop $THE_ID2 "Evdev Wheel Emulation" 8 1 xinput set-int-prop $THE_ID3 "Evdev Wheel Emulation" 8 1 xinput set-int-prop $THE_ID "Evdev Wheel Emulation Button" 8 2 xinput set-int-prop $THE_ID "Evdev Wheel Emulation Button" 8 2 xinput set-int-prop $THE_ID3 "Evdev Wheel Emulation Button" 8 2 xinput set-int-prop $THE_ID "Evdev Wheel Emulation Inertia" 16 1 xinput set-int-prop $THE_ID2 "Evdev Wheel Emulation Inertia" 16 1 xinput set-int-prop $THE_ID3 "Evdev Wheel Emulation Inertia" 16 1 xinput set-int-prop $THE_ID "Device Accel Velocity Scaling" 100 xinput set-int-prop $THE_ID2 "Device Accel Velocity Scaling" 100 xinput set-int-prop $THE_ID3 "Device Accel Velocity Scaling" 100 *** Bug 302561 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** no need to say that KDE SC needs a touchpad menagement KCM, as for mouse, keyboard, joystick and wacom tablets. I would like this also kcm_touchpad looks nice but is missing several functions to make it work such as two finger scrolling workarounds. is a touchpad KCM being prepped at this year's google summer of code? because i'm really looking forward to it, and surely i'm not the only one. what more bugs me is that kdetouchpadenabler doesn't work for me either in 4.11 beta 2.. *** Bug 340296 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** A new KCM is coming in for 5.3 for trackpad configs |