How to configure touchpad?
Hi! So after several hours I've finally gotten slackware running! But the only thing I don't understand is how to configure the touchpad. In Ubuntu you can do it in the GUI, but I have no idea how to do it via Slackware.
I mostly want it to disable tap to click when I type, and enable horizontal and vertical scrolling. I've tried using synclient but that doesn't seem to work, and in any case I think that is only supposed to be a temporary fix anyway. Oh, I guess this is not really on topic, but can someone teach me how to update packages I've installed? I installed wicd to use wireless for my laptop, but according to their website, it's best that I update it to the newest version because of some bug. Thanks! |
Probably you will need to make changes is xorg.conf. Try first looking in /etc/X11/.
The latest versions of xorg don't really need an xorg.conf, so if it's not there don't panic. Sorry, I don't remember (and my notes are too sketchy) where I learned the possible parameter. That said, on my old hardware running old Debian I have the following in my xorg.conf Code:
Section "InputDevice" |
Configuring the synaptics driver for your touchpad will depend on the version of Slackware that you have installed.
For the stable 13.1 release: From CHANGES_AND_HINTS.TXT Quote:
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On Slackware 13.1 the following worked to disable tap-to-click on a touchpad reported in /var/log/messages as
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Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw: 7.2, id: 0x1c0b1, caps: 0xd04771/0xa40000 Code:
cp /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/11-x11-synaptics.fdi /etc/hal/fdi/policy/ Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> If that works, here's a more ambitious sample with comments: Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> EDIT: using the above methods, no X configuration changes were necessary. |
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If you have just started with Slackware you may like to browse a collection of Slackware links for information on upgrading and many other questions that will come. A good starting place is LQ's collection of Slackware links. Further helpful links (maybe all listed in LQ's collection of links):
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For package updates look at: upgradepkg - The official Slackware script by Patrick Volkerding for upgrading a package. pkgtool - The official Slackware script by Patrick Volkerding for configuring Slackware, that incorporates upgradepkg. slackpkg - The official Slackware application by PiterPunk for syncing your Slackware installation with an official tree. There are also third party tools (e.g. slaptget, swaret) for doing this that I personally do not use or recommend. |
You can also use this synclient GUI to configure your touchpad:
http://slackbuilds.org/repository/13...m/flSynclient/ EDIT: Even better if you're a KDE user: http://slackbuilds.org/repository/13.../kcm_touchpad/ |
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I'm going to try the other method with HAL though and see how that goes |
The HAL stuff worked! But unfortunately for some reason my touchpad doesn't support multitouch even though it was advertised as such =[
Going to change to solved |
You can try if you can emulate two-finger scroll with:
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synclient EmulateTwoFingerMinZ=35 |
Wow that completely worked! How do you make it so that I don't have to enter the commands everytime I turn on the computer though? Should I have X11 make an xorg.conf file or am I supposed to do it from HAL?
I'm pretty new so all this stuff is confusing me =[ |
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<merge key="input.x11_options.EmulateTwoFingerMinZ" type="string">35</merge> |
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