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First of all: I know synclient, but I do not understand it.
Facts: My wife's notebook has had too much coffee or rather too much sugar in the coffee and the keyboard is apparently lost. I have integrated her hard-disk in my own machine, have dual-boot and a virtual machine to start her Mint-system (17.2 apparently) from Debian.
Observation: The Touchpad is on LSD, when I try to do anything in Mint. The same Touchpad serves me well under Debian for years and continues to execute my commands promptly. Under Mint it obeys a different master, not me.
When I compare the synclient output, I do not see much difference between the distributions. But I may not look at the right variables.
Question: What are your recommendations to reduce the sensibility of the Touchpad in Mint? And in any case, I would like to know, which driver options should I set to which values to alter the behavior.
To find out which Xorg input driver is in use, you can use something like
Code:
grep "Using input driver" /var/log/Xorg.0.log
You also mentioned the following in your opening post
Quote:
Facts: My wife's notebook has had too much coffee or rather too much sugar in the coffee and the keyboard is apparently lost. I have integrated her hard-disk in my own machine, have dual-boot and a virtual machine to start her Mint-system (17.2 apparently) from Debian.
Does this mean you run Mint as a client VM? If so, then (depending on the VM perhaps) I would expect the physical touchpad is not handled directly via the guest, and so might be presented as a more virtual input device (with more limited functionality). For example, I have a Windows 7 host with openSUSE guest, and the touchpad is presented as a mouse...
To find out which Xorg input driver is in use, you can use something like
Code:
grep "Using input driver" /var/log/Xorg.0.log
You also mentioned the following in your opening post
Does this mean you run Mint as a client VM? If so, then (depending on the VM perhaps) I would expect the physical touchpad is not handled directly via the guest, and so might be presented as a more virtual input device (with more limited functionality). For example, I have a Windows 7 host with openSUSE guest, and the touchpad is presented as a mouse...
Code:
ImExPS/2 Generic Explorer Mouse
Thank you for all the input.
Up to now, I have not had opportunity to test anything. My proposition is therefore, that I will get some work done, then report back in this thread. I cannot say, when this will be. Also, I will, before long, take some time off of the Internet and IT in general. There is a heap of work waiting outside and as here, in France, the technology is beginning to be imposed to organize every detail of your daily life, and as satisfying the needs of surveillance and propaganda are the only uses that the folks around me are able and willing to invest in, technology begins to give me diarrhea.
I'd like to keep away from it for a while.
I will just write a quick update in my sqlite2dbf thread, then see a little what happens, and, maybe, go away.
Your post resonates with me as well. I sometimes feel that I'm overdosing on it these days. It permeates our working and personal lives, and we can forget to feed our souls. I have a fond memory of riding bikes around a village area not far from Toulouse with my GF at the time while on holiday visiting her family. Good conversations, food, wine, swimming, and relaxing. I think I'll limit my online activity for a bit as well.
I could play with the options given by notKlaatu and would now, after very few testing, claim that the situation has improved. I could write 1 whole email without having to rearrange paragraphs which had jumped around in the text and even did some word processing... Now, this is definitely different. My wife sais that she had not noticed anything, but she is the one with the most experience on Mint. She had probably adapted her hand movements with the time.
Thank you all, once again, and with respect to my previous post, I wish you all a happy X-mas, happy easter and whatever you wish for 2017... I'll be on the construction site, meanwhile.
Cheerio.
Last edited by Michael Uplawski; 11-27-2016 at 12:40 PM.
Reason: Orthography. Strange.
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