Talk:Synaptics TouchPad driver for X - Revision history

Carlz at 04:58, 24 November 2010

2010-11-24T04:58:04Z

Carlz at 04:49, 24 November 2010

2010-11-24T04:49:17Z

Carlz: /* Configuration for newer xorg */

2010-11-24T04:47:49Z

‎Configuration for newer xorg

Kapil: /* Configuration for newer xorg */ new section

2010-07-20T02:01:05Z

‎Configuration for newer xorg: new section

Szuk at 00:10, 29 January 2006

2006-01-29T00:10:21Z

New page

I prefer use the trackpoint instead of the touchpad for pointer movement but find the horizontal/vertical scrolling using the right/bottom edges of the touchpad useful. I have configured my touchpad so that its entire area is scrollable by changing the edge coordinates in my xorg.conf. Now I can can control the pointer with the trackpoint and scroll windows horizontally and vertically at the same time by dragging my thumb around anywhere on the touchpad, like a 2-axis scrollwheel or a scrollball. Unfortunately, these settings seem to get lost when resuming from hibernation (suspend2) but there is no problem when using sleep/suspend to ram.

My xorg.conf Touchpad config section:

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "SHMConfig" "on"
# Set up a very small touchpad area so that the up/down
# and left/right scrolling areas take up the entire
# touchpad. This makes it possible to use the entire
# touchpad for scrolling and the superior trackpoint
# for cursor movement ;)
Option "UpDownScrolling" "1"
Option "LeftRightScrolling" "1"
Option "LeftEdge" "0"
Option "RightEdge" "1"
Option "TopEdge" "0"
Option "BottomEdge" "1"
Option "TapButton1" "0"
Option "TapButton2" "0"
Option "TapButton3" "0"
# The above non-standard settings for the edges
# causes some odd tapping behavior so turn
# off all corner button options.
Option "RTCornerButton" "0"
Option "RBCornerButton" "0"
Option "LTCornerButton" "0"
Option "RBCornerButton" "0"
EndSection

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 *The gsynaptic web page says the following: ''GSynaptics will be obsolete. Please try GPointing Device Settings.''
 *The package in Ubuntu Maverick is gpointing-device-settings
-*Don't know if the choice to list the older software in this article was intentional but...
+*Don't know if the choice to leave the older software in this article was intentional but...
 *I'm happy to report that GPointing Device Settings works awesome on t410s, including middle mouse button (button 2) scrolling (while retaining unix clipboard paste).

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 *The package in Ubuntu Maverick is gpointing-device-settings
 *Don't know if the choice to list the older software in this article was intentional but...
-*I can report that it works awesome on t410s, including middle mouse button scrolling (while retaining unix clipboard paste).
+*I'm happy to report that GPointing Device Settings works awesome on t410s, including middle mouse button (button 2) scrolling (while retaining unix clipboard paste).

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		+
		+	==GPointing Device Settings==
		+	*The gsynaptic web page says the following: ''GSynaptics will be obsolete. Please try GPointing Device Settings.''
		+	*The package in Ubuntu Maverick is gpointing-device-settings
		+	*Don't know if the choice to list the older software in this article was intentional but...
		+	*I can report that it works awesome on t410s, including middle mouse button scrolling (while retaining unix clipboard paste).

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	Option "RBCornerButton" "0"		Option "RBCornerButton" "0"
	EndSection		EndSection
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		+	== Configuration for newer xorg ==
		+
		+	With the newer xorg (>= 1.7.3) on Debian, there appears to be a
		+	problem that the touchpad is detected but 'synclient -l' does not
		+	work.
		+
		+	A solution that I found is to have file called (say)
		+	/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-thinkpad.conf which contains:
		+
		+	<pre>
		+	Section "InputClass"
		+	Identifier "Trackpoint"
		+	MatchProduct "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"
		+	Driver "synaptics"
		+	Option "AutoServerLayout" "true"
		+	Option "GuestMouse" "true"
		+	EndSection
		+
		+	Section "InputClass"
		+	Identifier "Trackpoint"
		+	MatchProduct "TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint"
		+	Option "AutoServerLayout" "true"
		+	Option "EmulateWheel" "true"
		+	Option "EmulateWheelButton" "2"
		+	Option "Emulate3Buttons" "false"
		+	Option "XAxisMapping" "6 7"
		+	Option "YAxisMapping" "4 5"
		+	EndSection
		+	</pre>