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ristretto

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Registered: 2007-07-06

Posts: 50

How is your mouse setup in xorg? (with a trackpad and pointer stick)

I have found plenty of information on the web to assist in setting
the pointers in xorg.  I have a new Dell D830.  It has both
a pointer stick and a trackpad.

I want to make sure I have this setup in a sane way.
I'm wondering if anyone has solved these and wants to post a working
xorg.conf for me to try.

1.  Is there anyway to control the speed of the pointer stick?  I had to do
xset m 1 1 to cancel out acceleration which made it usable.  I can live with
it, but I would like to have more control if possible.

2.  The trackpad is working including the vertical scroll on the right.  But, double
tapping a word in any editor doesn't select the word, triple tapping selects it for a
second, and then deselects it.  It is seen the double clicks, though.  I can roll up
a window in Fluxbox by double tapping the title bar.

Note, both the pointer stick and trackpad work somewhat with this single device.  I'm puzzled
a bit by this.  I have quite a few devices to choose from.  /dev/event6 seems to do this.
Or may be it's the SendCoreEvents option.

Currently I'm using this

Section "InputDevice"
    Driver          "synaptics"
    Identifier      "TouchPad"
        Option        "SendCoreEvents"    "true"
        Option        "Device"        "/dev/event6
    Option  "Protocol"      "auto-dev"
    Option  "LeftEdge"      "100"
    Option  "RightEdge"     "900"
    Option  "TopEdge"       "100"
    Option  "BottomEdge"    "900"
    Option  "FingerLow"     "25"
    Option  "FingerHigh"    "30"
    Option  "MaxTapTime"    "180"
    Option  "MaxTapMove"    "220"
    Option  "VertScrollDelta" "100"
    Option  "MinSpeed"      "1.16"
    Option  "MaxSpeed"      "0.12"
    Option  "AccelFactor" "0.0010"
    Option  "SHMConfig"     "on"
    Option  "TouchpadOff"    "0"
    Option      "CircularScrolling"          "on"
        Option      "CircScrollTrigger"          "0"
EndSection

available devices

crw-rw---- 1 root root 13,  64 2007-09-09 22:38 event0
crw-rw---- 1 root root 13,  65 2007-09-09 22:38 event1
crw-rw---- 1 root root 13,  66 2007-09-09 22:38 event2
crw-rw---- 1 root root 13,  67 2007-09-09 22:38 event3
crw-rw---- 1 root root 13,  68 2007-09-09 22:38 event4
crw-rw---- 1 root root 13,  69 2007-09-09 22:38 event5
crw-rw---- 1 root root 13,  70 2007-09-09 22:38 event6
crw-rw---- 1 root root 13,  71 2007-09-09 22:38 event7
crw-r--r-- 1 root root 13,  63 2007-09-09 22:38 mice
crw-r--r-- 1 root root 13,  32 2007-09-09 22:38 mouse0
crw-r--r-- 1 root root 13,  33 2007-09-09 22:38 mouse1
crw-r--r-- 1 root root 13,  34 2007-09-09 22:38 mouse2
crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 128 2007-09-09 22:38 ts0
crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 129 2007-09-09 22:38 ts1
crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 130 2007-09-09 22:38 ts2
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