Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Bill Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] xorg, mtrack on a macbook air
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2012 23:25:57
Message-Id: 1354663448.503.1.camel@bunyip
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] xorg, mtrack on a macbook air by Bill Kenworthy
1 On Tue, 2012-12-04 at 14:08 +0800, Bill Kenworthy wrote:
2 > On Tue, 2012-12-04 at 13:59 +0800, Bill Kenworthy wrote:
3 > > Hi, I have a mouse issue with the trackpad on a late 2012 macbook air.
4 > >
5 > > In X I am seeing multiple mouse clicks similar to two drivers for the
6 > > same event. i.e., mtrack is set to 3 zones for the pad but a right click
7 > > shows (in xev) mouse button 3 down, then 1 down, then 1 up and finally 3
8 > > up which destroys most right click actions :(
9 > >
10 > > Oddly, button 1 clicks are ok (only one set, not repeated)
11 > >
12 > > Is it possible to find out where the button 1 clicks are coming from? -
13 > > evdev just says which button is clicked, not where it came from.
14 > >
15 > > BillK
16 > >
17 >
18 > Whoops, slight mistake ... s/evdev/xev/ :)
19 >
20 > BillK
21
22 ok, no reply so it seems no-one else knows either.
23
24 I think there are a number of others running gentoo on a macbook, so how
25 are you handling the trackpad in X (LXDE)?
26
27 BillK