[Ilugc] Making two finger tap work as middle click
- From: roshan@xxxxxxxxx (Roshan George)
- Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2011 12:55:40 +0530
On Tue, 2011-07-05 at 11:02 +0530, Arun Khan wrote:
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 11:05 PM, Roshan George <roshan at arjie.com> wrote:
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I am not a GNOME user. On my KDE 4.5 desktop, I am able to get the
"middle" button effect by pressing L+R buttons of the mousepad (it is
an old Compaq laptop).
This feature is available in Gnome as well. However, I wished to merely
tap my fingers on the touchpad. It's much easier than pressing both
buttons and allows me to scroll (with 2 fingers) and copy paste easily.
I understand this is possible in KDE as well, but not in Gnome.
Create a group and give that group sudo access to "synclient". Add
all your laptop users to that group.
Sadly, I don't know of a way to detect when the computer is returning
from sleep. Running the script manually is inelegant and frustrating.
Anyway, while searching through bug lists for this, I found Yuri Khan's
PPA:
https://launchpad.net/~yurivkhan/+archive/ppa . Apparently, the
story is that the Gnome developers, in their infinite wisdom, decided
that gnome-settings-daemon must ignore hal and ignore the driver's
recommendations, implement its own hard-coded defaults, and finally not
provide any gconf settings to switch this back. The recommended
solution, apparently, is to upgrade to Gnome 3.2.
Fortunately, our hero, Yuri Khan, has patched g-s-d to act in a sane
manner. Praise be to him.
Regards,
--
Roshan George <roshan at arjie.com>
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