Re: Running from External Disk: trackpad question

["Jarod Wilson" <user=74@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 09:47 -0400, Kent Borg wrote: 
> Jarod Wilson wrote: 
> > eeeeew. [Ubuntu] doesn't cope on the fly?!? Fedora 9's X server does. :) 
> > (Sorry, couldn't resist) 
> 
> It possibly does, but I had tampered with those settings manually (and 
> kind of forgotten about it), and it preserved my settings.  (Does Fedora 
> stomp on your customizations?) 

Nope. Fedora uses as minimal an xorg.conf as possible, and relies 
heavily on auto-detecting and auto-configuring stuff, but if you do 
tamper manually, those settings will get used (though I swear it should 
still detect additional input devices like your trackpad just fine -- I 
have six in my own setup when docked -- two keyboards, a trackball, a 
mouse, a touch pad and one of those nub pointer thingies...) 

Nb: Fedora 9 comes with xorg 1.5 (pre-release snap), Ubuntu 8.04 comes 
with xorg 1.4, so there are definitely some things that are going to be 
different... 

> The Panasonic Toughbook/Let's Note W4 that is heading to the shop has a 
> nifty circular trackpad that can scroll in a circle.  It takes a lot of 
> memory!  How?  By letting me accumulate far more Firefox tabs that is 
> reasonable.  I can scroll through them at a great rate by spinning 
> non-stop in a circle. 

I've tried the circular scrolling, can't stand it myself. I'm partial to 
two-finger dragging to scroll. Doesn't work quite as well on my thinkpad 
as it did on my powerbook though, partially due to the relatively tiny 
trackpad they put on these thinkpads (probably my only real complaint 
w/my T61). 


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