[arch-general] Some synaptics multitouch functionality lost on upgrade
MacbookPro5,4. After an upgrade a few days ago, which included an update to xf86-input-synaptics-1.5.99.901-1, I've lost the ability to right click by clicking with two fingers. Interestingly, I can still right-click by /tapping/ with two fingers, and everything else is working unaffected (including two-finger scrolling). Any hints as to what triggered the change, and how to fix it? Various searches shed no light on this. Nothing interesting is in Xorg.0.log, xinput's output seems ordinary, and I don't see any options offered by synclient that would change this behaviour. Anywhere else to look? (I'm about to try enabling shmconfig and see what synclient -m gives.) (I'm not a fan of mtrack at all; I'd much rather get the input-synaptics stuff working properly again.) Thanks. -- Scott Lawrence Linux jagadai 3.2.9-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Mar 1 09:31:13 CET 2012 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P8700 @ 2.53GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
to, 2012-03-15 kello 14:58 -0400, Scott Lawrence kirjoitti:
I've lost the ability to right click by clicking with two fingers. Interestingly, I can still right-click by /tapping/ with two fingers,
There has been some changes on the clickpad stuff, it got rewritten entirely. And so the default settings have and stuff has changed too. If I'm not mistaken the whole trackpad is considered a track area now and to do 2nd mouse button click, you need to have one stationary finger on the pad and then click the physical button with another finger or tap with 2 fingers. Midle mousebutton would be 2 stationary finger + 3rd one pressing button or 3 finger tap. ^_^
On Thu, 15 Mar 2012, Jesse Juhani Jaara wrote:
to, 2012-03-15 kello 14:58 -0400, Scott Lawrence kirjoitti:
I've lost the ability to right click by clicking with two fingers. Interestingly, I can still right-click by /tapping/ with two fingers,
There has been some changes on the clickpad stuff, it got rewritten entirely. And so the default settings have and stuff has changed too. If I'm not mistaken the whole trackpad is considered a track area now and to do 2nd mouse button click, you need to have one stationary finger on the pad and then click the physical button with another finger or tap with 2 fingers. Midle mousebutton would be 2 stationary finger + 3rd one pressing button or 3 finger tap. ^_^
Hmm... now I'm confused. Since I don't have a separate button, I put one finger on, then a second, then press, and it treats it as "left click". (There's no separate physical button.) How is that different from what you describe? (Sorry if I'm being particularly dense. Maybe I should just build an old version from source.) -- Scott Lawrence Linux jagadai 3.2.9-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Mar 1 09:31:13 CET 2012 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P8700 @ 2.53GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
to, 2012-03-15 kello 15:44 -0400, Scott Lawrence kirjoitti:
(There's no separate physical button.) How is that different from what you describe? Is your trackpad like this? With or without those lines. http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2010/05/hppavilionhands-on05.j... Do you have xf86-input-synaptics-clickpad intalled?
(Sorry if I'm being particularly dense. Maybe I should just build an old version from source.) If you are using the ..-clickpad pkg you can get old version from the general AUR git clone. Or from my own git of my PKGBUILDS https://gitorious.org/huulivoide-aur
On Thu, 15 Mar 2012, Jesse Juhani Jaara wrote:
to, 2012-03-15 kello 15:44 -0400, Scott Lawrence kirjoitti:
(There's no separate physical button.) How is that different from what you describe? Is your trackpad like this? With or without those lines. http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2010/05/hppavilionhands-on05.j...
Yup, albeit on a mac.
Do you have xf86-input-synaptics-clickpad intalled?
No, I was using xf86-input-synaptics. Using -clickpad made no difference in behaviour.
(Sorry if I'm being particularly dense. Maybe I should just build an old version from source.) If you are using the ..-clickpad pkg you can get old version from the general AUR git clone. Or from my own git of my PKGBUILDS https://gitorious.org/huulivoide-aur
Hmmm. Thanks for the pointer. This functionality isn't so bad (apparently, I almost never use right click anyway) - I think I'll just live with it until I have time to dive into the source to change the behaviour to what I want (possibly submitting a patch to make it configurable). Thanks for the help. -- Scott Lawrence Linux jagadai 3.2.9-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Mar 1 09:31:13 CET 2012 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P8700 @ 2.53GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
For the record: 'twas a bug in the driver, which the latest update fixed. ClickPad must also be set to "1". On Thu, 15 Mar 2012, Scott Lawrence wrote:
On Thu, 15 Mar 2012, Jesse Juhani Jaara wrote:
to, 2012-03-15 kello 15:44 -0400, Scott Lawrence kirjoitti:
(There's no separate physical button.) How is that different from what you describe? Is your trackpad like this? With or without those lines. http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2010/05/hppavilionhands-on05.j...
Yup, albeit on a mac.
Do you have xf86-input-synaptics-clickpad intalled?
No, I was using xf86-input-synaptics. Using -clickpad made no difference in behaviour.
(Sorry if I'm being particularly dense. Maybe I should just build an old version from source.) If you are using the ..-clickpad pkg you can get old version from the general AUR git clone. Or from my own git of my PKGBUILDS https://gitorious.org/huulivoide-aur
Hmmm. Thanks for the pointer.
This functionality isn't so bad (apparently, I almost never use right click anyway) - I think I'll just live with it until I have time to dive into the source to change the behaviour to what I want (possibly submitting a patch to make it configurable).
Thanks for the help.
-- Scott Lawrence
Linux jagadai 3.2.9-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Mar 1 09:31:13 CET 2012 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P8700 @ 2.53GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
-- Scott Lawrence Linux jagadai 3.2.12-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Mar 19 17:50:01 CET 2012 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P8700 @ 2.53GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
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