system-* tools' ui independence
Horst H. von Brand
vonbrand at inf.utfsm.cl
Fri Feb 29 15:01:43 UTC 2008
Trond Danielsen <trond.danielsen at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 5:08 PM, Kelly Miller <lightsolphoenix at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 2/28/08, Matej Cepl <mcepl at redhat.com> wrote:
> > > On 2008-02-28, 05:45 GMT, Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek wrote:
> > > > Sometimes I have broken xorg.conf and no copy on Internet so
> > > > then some tool is needed.
> > > Since FC6 everything Should Work⢠even without any
> > > /etc/X11/xorg.conf whatsoever.
> > Not so; I know for a fact that a Synaptics Touchpad will not work
> > unless there's an entry in xorg.conf for it. There are probably
> > others as well.
>
> I've had Synaptics on three laptops (Dell Inspiron 8100, Asus S5A and
> Lenovo ThinkPad T61p), and the touchpad work on all of them. The
> SHMConfig option is only needed to access additional configuration
> options, but basic functionality is available without any
> modifications to xorg.conf.
Here (Toshiba Tecra with both a nipple among the keys and a touchpad) the
touchpad doesn't work at all. Not too bad in my case, as I tend to swipe
over it when typing (with mostly unpleasant results), and I use an external
mouse in any case. The nipple works (but is rather useless with only 2
buttons).
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