> From: Adam Williamson <awill...@redhat.com> > To: Development discussions related to Fedora <devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> > Date: 09/18/2012 14:57 > Subject: Re: Why is not enabled TapButton of touchpad on Fedora by default? > Sent by: devel-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org > > On Tue, 2012-09-18 at 08:35 -0400, john.flor...@dart.biz wrote: > > > From: Adam Williamson <awill...@redhat.com> > > > > > > Oh, I should also note that, IIRC, the intent is that the driver > > should > > > detect if there are no physical buttons and enable tap-to-click in > > this > > > case. So touchpads which have no buttons and are only supposed to > > work > > > with tap-to-click should be OK. > > > > Where does my notebook's touchpad fall in this continuum? At the > > bottom corners of the touch-sensitive area are two "buttons" which > > click with tactile feedback, but yet are still part of the > > touch-sensitive surface. In other words, the bottom corners can > > actually be deformed/depressed. FWIW, I enabled tap-to-click -- did I > > just answer my own question? -- simply because my wife and I both > > found the mouse to be moving off target too often when tried using > > these "buttons". > > As far as evdev is concerned those are almost certainly just perfectly > normal buttons, i.e., they send a 'button press' event. The fact that > they also function as part of the touch-sensitive surface is probably > irrelevant. So evdev would see your touchpad as one with buttons, and > wouldn't enable tap-to-click.
If memory serves (which, in my case, is always questionable), that matches my experience: I had to enable the feature; it wasn't on by default. > (I hereby include my permanent disclaimer that I'm just the idiot > monkey, and any time someone who's not an idiot monkey comes along and > contradicts me, you can confidently assume I'm wrong...so if ajax or > whot or someone shows up and says I'm wrong, then I damn well am.) Hey! That's mine too, except you can s/ajax|whot/nearly anyone/g. Offer void where not prohibited. -- John Florian
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