CFT: ClickPad support

[Chase Douglas]

On Feb 16, 2012, at 3:23 PM, Kristian Kißling <kkissling at linuxnewmedia.de> wrote:

> Chase Douglas schrieb folgendes am 16.02.2012 08:55:
>> On 02/13/2012 03:12 PM, Chase Douglas wrote:
>>> On 02/13/2012 11:56 PM, Kristian Kißling wrote:
>>>> Chase Douglas schrieb folgendes am 12.02.2012 19:56:
>>>>> On Feb 12, 2012, at 10:42 AM, Chris Van Hoof <vanhoof at canonical.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>> Hey Chase,
>>>> 
>>>> thanks a lot, thats a good thing! This morning I thought it should be
>>>> easier to work with Ubuntu when you forget your external mouse :)
>>>> 
>>>> Your scripts work, but there are some glitches. Context menus only show
>>>> up if I touch specific points in the upper area of the "right button
>>>> area". If I use the lower area, nothing happens, but I guess you know
>>>> that already. If you need more feedback and data, drop me a line.
>>> 
>>> How big (in height % of overall touchpad) is the lower area where right
>>> click doesn't work? Some of these trackpads produce locations outside of
>>> the reported max and min values. I wonder if where you are clicking is
>>> above the maximum in the Y direction (Y coordinates are from top to bottom).
>> 
>> I posted a new version of the enable-rightbutton.sh script to
>> people.canonical.com yesterday. It sets the bottom edge of the right
>> button area twice as far as the maximum value. This should catch all
>> touches, even those beyond the reported range of the device.
>> 
> Great, now it works everywhere in the right field! Btw: If I tap on the
> right field, nothing happens - I have to click. But I assume thats the
> expected behaviour.

Yeah. There's a separate synaptics property that can enable tap actions in the lower right area. I didn't want to conflate the two functionalities, so I only made presses perform a right click.

Thanks for testing!

-- Chase