unsupported synaptics touchpad

[Kevin Oberman]

On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 6:52 AM, Jean-Sébastien Pédron <
jean-sebastien.pedron at dumbbell.fr> wrote:

> Le 09/09/2013 14:06, Ke Sun a écrit :
>
>  Does that mean that I tap on the touchpad, and that I click the touchpad
>> left
>> button, is exactly the same button to X?
>>
>
> Yes, when synaptics_support is disabled, we can't distinguish a physical
> button from a tap. The only information received from the hardware is an
> event saying "the user clicked using button #1" (ie. left button).
>
>
>  It is possible to disable this button and use the right button for
>> left clicking by tunning xorg.conf?
>>
>
> I don't think so, because the hardware is not configurable in this mode.
> From X.Org PoV, you could remap button #1 (left button) or button #3 (right
> button), but no matter what, the physical left button and the tap share the
> same number, #1.
>

When looking at this sort of issue, xev(1) is your very good friend. It
reports all mouse events including raw information into X as well as how X
interprets it. (Also mouse moves, keyboard events, meta-key actions, etc.
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
E-mail: rkoberman at gmail.com