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Has anybody here gotten the MacbookPro trackpad to work properly in X11 as it does in OS/X? I'm using Slackware.
I'm finding I cannot do the usual combination of: click on the pad, holding it down, and drag e.g. to resize a window or move a window.
I've tried adding a Section "InputDevice" to xorg.conf that uses the synaptics driver and specifies a click area, but this does not work.
In addition, tapping to click in Linux/X11 is it interpreted as a short finger-drag with click, instead of just a click.
I've tried copying and pasting another person's xorg.conf section and it seems to have no effect.
By the way, I wonder: To what extent is the awkwardness of using trackpads on Linux due a failure of the developers of X11 to accept that trackpads are not functionally equivalent to mice?
I've got Debian (Squeeze) with Gnome running on a MacBookPro and the touch-pad works as it should, out of the box. There was no need to create a xorg.conf (all is picked up/initialized automatically by edev).
As far as I can tell only one packet was (automatically) installed that deals with touch-pads: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
Maybe the pad is too sensitive or otherwise not configured the way you want/like. I do see another package that might be of use (never used it myself): tpconfig.
I've got Debian (Squeeze) with Gnome running on a MacBookPro and the touch-pad works as it should, out of the box. There was no need to create a xorg.conf (all is picked up/initialized automatically by edev).
As far as I can tell only one packet was (automatically) installed that deals with touch-pads: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
Maybe the pad is too sensitive or otherwise not configured the way you want/like. I do see another package that might be of use (never used it myself): tpconfig.
Can you show me the contents of your Synaptics configuration file(s)?
They should be in /etc/X11/xorg-config.d and maybe /usr/share/X11.
If those exist and work for me, maybe I'll be OK but if not, I may need to extract the settings that OS/X is using, which are perfect.
These are from /usr/share/X11/xorg-config.d/
...
These 2 are the only files I found with any reference to synaptics/touchpad.
This now makes even less sense. Are you actually able to do the things
that I originally wrote I couldn't do i.e.
- Tap to click, and the pointer doesn't jump in the process.
- Click and hold it down, and use a second finger to move/resize a window?
All the touchpad gestures seem to work on my side. I'm not a big fan of the extended touchpad gestures in general, so I'm not sure if everything works 100%. The ones you describe work, although they do sometimes "jump" (which I believe is a sensitivity problem).
Out of the box kernel:
Code:
$ uname -a
Linux plains 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP Mon Sep 23 22:14:43 UTC 2013 x86_64 GNU/Linux
EDIT: I just noticed your other MacBook Pro related thread and you do have a different version then I have, which might be of influence.
My specs:
- MacBook Pro A1260 (2008)
- Intel Core 2 Duo
- Nvidia Geforce 8600M
- 4 Gb RAM
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