[lubuntu-users] Lubuntu 18.10, no touchpad settings

[Aere Greenway]

On 10/28/18 6:05 PM, Israel wrote:
> On 10/28/18 10:11 AM, Aere Greenway wrote:
>> On 10/28/18 8:48 AM, Israel wrote:
>>> ....
>> Israel:
>>
>>
>> Thank you for providing a work-around for the problem.
>>
>>
>> Fortunately for me, the systems with the problem are only test-systems.
>>
>>
>> Hopefully, this problem will be solved before I am to the point of
>> considering migrating my production systems to Lubuntu 19.04.
>>
>>
>> Though some people like command-line-interfaces, I hope this
>> work-around isn't the permanent solution to the problem.
>>
>> -- 
>> Sincerely,
>> Aere
> Hi Aere, I did some searching, and it is extremely hard to find out
> where/what the synaptics API actually is.... anyhow after long searching
> I found
>
> https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-input-synaptics/tree/src/synaptics.c
>
> Which is somewhat an example of the C interface... I know you mostly do
> Java, but if you are motivated C++/QML is actually a nice way to program
> and I am sure all LXQt denizens would welcome a fully functioning true
> synaptics config tool... otherwise it would be pretty easy to write a
> program that gets values and simply send them via the system() command.
>
> I am also sending this to the list in case anyone around is really
> interested in making something, and to have it in the mail archives if
> anyone ever is looking for it again :D
>
> The caveat is that this is Xorg specific... no idea how Wayland
> will/does handle this... though my experience with Wayland so far has
> been a bit underwhelming.  Though... it may replace X eventually kinda
> like systemd did with the old init system.
>
Israel:

Thanks for the suggestion.  It is possible, but I don't know if I will 
have the time to make the venture.  It could happen.

-- 
Sincerely,
Aere