Posts Tagged ‘synaptics’

MacBook synaptics configuration for Hal

Since Ubuntu 8.10 the device configuration was moved from Xorg to Hal. So i had to “translate” my old notes to let my touchpad work with hal.
Just create a new .fdi file into /etc/hal/fdi/policy and paste the translated configuration below:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
<device>
<match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.touchpad">
<merge [...]

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MacBook synaptics configuration

The following configuration implements two-fingers scrolling and the three-fingers click emulates the third-button click. Finally it’s quite less sensible than the “default”, useful to avoid unexpected (and catastrofic!) clicks while moving the cursor :)
Section “InputDevice”
Identifier “Synaptics Touchpad”
[...]

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