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#1 2009-03-19 21:08:36

Stythys
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Macbook Touchpad + Colemak

I just installed arch onto my macbook and just a few minor problems that need fixed.

If possible, can you make tap-clicks and two-finger scolls, etc. possible on the trackpad? I followed the wiki but it didn't help.

Also, I'm trying to get a sepeate keyboard layout (colemak), to start up at the login screen. I followed the instructions on xorg.conf on their website, but again, no luck. Does anyone have a working setup?


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"Once you go Arch, you must remain there for life or else Allan will track you down and break you."
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#2 2009-03-20 00:01:21

Stythys
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Re: Macbook Touchpad + Colemak

Oh, another thing I noticed. My wifi seems to flicker on and off...like for 10 seconds it'll be on...the next 10 seconds it'll go off...etc. etc.


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#3 2009-03-20 00:06:12

lucke
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Re: Macbook Touchpad + Colemak

That's what I have in xorg.conf:

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "keyboard"
    Option "XkbRules"   "xorg"
    Option "XkbModel"   "pc105"
    Option "XkbLayout"   "colemak"
EndSection

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#4 2009-03-21 15:10:12

sourced
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Registered: 2009-03-18
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Re: Macbook Touchpad + Colemak

What version macbook? I have a 2,1 (Aug 2007), AR5008 chip (from lspci -v). Here's my script for getting online; my connection drops every couple days:

#!/bin/sh
echo "Unloading ath9k..."
sudo rmmod ath9k
echo "Loading ath9k..."
sudo modprobe ath9k
echo "Setting essid..."
sudo iwconfig wlan0 essid tomato
echo "Running DHCP..."
sudo dhcpcd wlan0

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#5 2009-03-29 10:42:34

Piotrek M
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From: Poland
Registered: 2008-07-22
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Re: Macbook Touchpad + Colemak

About tap-clicks and so on:

This is a part of my xorg.conf responsible for that:

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Mouse0"
        Driver      "synaptics"
        Option      "Protocol" "auto-dev"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
#       Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
        Option  "HorizTwoFingerScroll" "true"
        Option  "TapButton1" "1"
        Option  "TapButton2" "3"
        Option  "TapButton3" "2"
EndSection

This makes two-finger tap the right button and three-finger tap the middle button (although my MacBook is the old, pre-multitouch one!). Also, it unlocks horizontal two-finger scrolling, vertical was, at least on my MacBook c2d, enabled by default.

Anyway, anyone managed to make 'prolonged' drag and drop? I mean a drag using only very touchpad, not its button, during which you can raise finger for a while and can continue (very comfortable for dragging something from one screen edge to the other). I got used to it so much that now i always drop things before time.

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