On Tue, 2015-04-28 at 07:19 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 28 April 2015 06:38:53 Eric Gunther wrote: > > > Mint 17.1 Xfce. I had to make that directory, and moved it to > > > 50-synaptics.conf in that otherwise empty, newly created dir. > > > Rebooted now, I'll check. Nope, not a noticeable difference. Copy > > > of Xorg.0.log attached. > > > > Hi Gene, > > > > Shouldn't you just decrease the sensitivity in xfce settings: > > http://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-settings/mouse > > My control panel>mouse>touchpad_tab config has only a disable tp when > typing, and scrolling choices none, both of which are checked. > It doesn't resemble that one above other than its a popup too. > > Having wasted about 3 weeks trying to get this as usable as a 12 yo > Mandrake install was OOTB, I am ready to move on. The only thing I have > managed to make work that did not after the install reboot networking > and NFS4. > > I set t-bird up to one on my accounts and exersized it to prove it works > and shut off the periodical mail fetch since this machine does it if its > up. An hour later, I come back to the machine and find its scarfed up > 300+ messages that should have come to this machine, and it did it > despite being told to stop. > > The synaptic package manager has been castrated by the removal of > the "mark all upgrades" button. I mean whoinhell is gonna scan thru the > listing of 46 thousand packages, finding the ones that are upgradeable > according the the green installed icon having a faint up arrow in it, > and enable THAT individual package to be upgraded by dbl clicking, not > on the icon mind you, but someplace in the descriptive text. Get real > folks, you cannot be expected to do that to all 1700 some packages > needing updated after the install. But I did just that anyway. > > So many of what some people might call little things are broken in this > mint 17.1 xfce install that I am going out to see if I can find a distro > that Just Works. Something that is lightweight enough to work on an > elderly laptop. I do not consider that 15 to 30 seconds to open an app > after its clicked on, running. The drive led is on for 90% of this lag > period. Its 100Gb drive tests perfectly. It only has a gig of memory, > but hasn't touched swap yet. > > This one, Mint-17.1 xfce ain't it. > > > -eg > > > Thanks Eric. > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett
Well, I was and likely will be soon running a FreeBSD os on an older laptop; What I liked was blackbox, which is extremely simple, although you have to set up X manually, and blackbox is not currently supported/developed... I think. No bells and whistles, but you can use the gui. Initially on startup you will see a blank colored screen with a bar on the bottom. Middle mouse, right mouse and left mouse open menus which are configurable. ~2 cents -eg http://blackboxwm.sourceforge.net/BlackboxWiki _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: %(user_address)s
