Yes, just as expected. Here's what you need to do:
The events X gets for the
mouse wheel are buttons 4 and 5. VNC client on Windows will send these to the
server on wheel actions. VNC client would also send these events on virtual
Touchpad scroll, if only could get a grip of it!
The Synaptic driver or the
Touchpad will send window scroll events (not mouse wheel events) directly to
windows which have standard scroll bars, and will not work at all for the
windows that do not have them.
e.g.: Because Pidgin attaches its own scrollbar
(and only gets mouse wheel events) you will see that the mouse wheel will
scroll the contact list up and down, but the Touchpad scroll will not.
To
make such applications accept the Touchpad's virtual scroll you will need to
tell to the Synaptic driver generate mouse wheel events for them:
1. Edit
C:\Program Files\Synaptics\SynTP\tp4table.dat
2. Read the comments; search
for lines like:
; Opera web browser
*,*,opera.exe,*,*,*,WheelStd,0,9
;
Google Picasa
*,*,picasa2.exe,*,*,*,WheelStd,0,9
These apps are receiving the
mouse wheel events even from Touchpad so that they can implement their own
scroll.
3. Add your own entries. For example:
; VNC Viewer
*,*,vncviewer.exe,*,*,*,WheelStd,0,9
; Pidgin (just for testing)
*,*,pidgin.exe,*,*,*,WheelStd,0,9
4. Save, Reboot. (Ugh!)
5. VNC to your
favorite server and enjoy! Give your mouse to the cat.
Best regards,
RumburaK
----- Original Message ----
From: Mihai Badea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
"Seak, Teng-Fong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "vnc-list@realvnc.com"
<vnc-list@realvnc.com>
Sent: Monday, 30 June, 2008 11:34:38 PM
Subject: Re:
Touchpad Scroll in VNC Linux (without the mouse) [BUMP]
Thanks Seak,
I dug a
lot on this... no results.
The gap nust be between
Windows Touchpad driver and
Windows VNC client.
There are of course a lot of
people who use Windows
laptops at work and connect to Unix machines and
probably adding support for
this would be at least interesting.
-----
Original Message ----
From:
"Seak, Teng-Fong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
"vnc-list@realvnc.com"
<vnc-list@realvnc.com>
Sent: Monday, 30 June, 2008
11:25:08 AM
Subject: Re:
Touchpad Scroll in VNC Linux (without the mouse)
[BUMP]
Sorry,
personally I have no answer to you. I've read the VNC doc
(both free and
enterprise) and there doesn't seem anything like what
you need.
But you're
advised to read it once yourself and see if I
miss anything.
Have you tried to
ask the forum of the Linux you use? I mean,
there might be
a little software
provided by them to check what
key/signal is sent from VNC
viewer to VNC
server and you might be able
to remap these key/signal as
scrolling.
On Wed,
Jun 25, 2008 at 7:01 PM, Mihai Badea
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Seak,
>
> I get your point. Maybe that in
Windows the Touchpad scroll is
> implemented
somehow otherwise than to emmit 4
and 5 button event and
> applications have a
handler for that.
> The wheel of
the USB mouse that I have
> on my desk works,
only the Touchpad scroll does
not.
> Also on another laptop
> that I have
Linux, the Touchpad scroll works
as 4/5 buttons, but this is just
> the driver
and it has nothing to do with
VNC.
>
> So the problem I think would be
> how
to tell the VncViewer to pick
up these events of Windows Touchpad
> Scrolling
and send them as 4/5 buttons?
>
> RumburaK
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