On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 11:55:31AM -0400, Jon Masters wrote: > On the off chance that someone knows the innards of the synaptics driver > beyond the basic tunables exposed in synclient... > > I bought a new Macbook Pro over the weekend, which is able to run Fedora > 12 (albeit not as smoothly as I would have hoped, it took a lot of > fiddling and the WiFi is still not reliable). It is dual booting with > OSX at the moment. In OSX, the ability to use two fingers to click and > drag is very useful. This is not the same as two finger scrolling, this > is simply clicking with one finger, and dragging with the other. > > Within the Fedora desktop environment, clicking and dragging results in > a right mouse button event and no dragging. I turned off the silly (and > in my personal opinion anti-useful) right mouse button stuff after some > fiddling with synclient in HAL so I don't end up with a lot of minimized > windows or "New Folder"s on my desktop every time I try to click and > drag. But I still can't actually click and drag. There is a suggestion > this is a limitation in the synaptics driver in Xorg. Is that correct? not quite the same feature but synaptics does provide single-finger tap-and-drag. Tap once, then leave the finger on the touchpad after the second touch to drag. Maybe that is a useful-enough alternative for now. Cheers, Peter -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
