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Gulver

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Registered: 2013-05-24

Posts: 208

Customizing Touchpad Buttons [Solved]

I want to change the behaviour of the touchpad buttons without screwing with tapping.

Googling didn't help and I'm no expert on GNU software and this could be useful for everyone searches.

I'm on Openbox + Tint2 enviroment if that matters.

Editing WM's rc or directly xorg is..?

Also a step by step explanation would be nice, if not neccessary.

Cheers!

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Last edited by Gulver (2013-05-26 14:29:54)

matyilona200

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Registered: 2012-06-21

Posts: 77

Re: Customizing Touchpad Buttons [Solved]

Take a look at Touchpad Synaptics.

Gulver

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Registered: 2013-05-24

Posts: 208

Re: Customizing Touchpad Buttons [Solved]

Take a look at Touchpad Synaptics.

I tampered synaptics conf, there you can only play with the taps but that actually helped me to find out that synaptics configuration is unrelated to mouse buttons.

Guess I'm gonna search for a change edit to good-old mouse conf, tell me if not.

Thanks.

Last edited by Gulver (2013-05-26 08:40:40)

Gulver

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Registered: 2013-05-24

Posts: 208

Re: Customizing Touchpad Buttons [Solved]

I figured.

To provide a guide:

firstly, you have to edit your synaptics conf to reverse your configurations. say 1 to 2 and vice versa.

then you edit xinput like 1 to 2 and vici versae.

also, if you want to change your tapping, you don't have to scratch with xinput.

Moral of story: xinput screws synaptics while synaptics is coded to be alone