On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 13:55, Oddball wrote:
Well, this morning i found myself time to test some 11.3 on eee-pc again, try to solve issues like: OSD on blue-tooth/on/off > Wifi/on/off, both on/off, the wifi issue about configuering and connecting, and ofcourse: the touchpad..... pffff.
searching for kcm_touchpad in the automatic added repo's showed: zilch! (n-r) Trying synaptiks, showed it was already installed.. Ok, but now how to find it to configure? Terminal? no! Yast hardware? No!, Mouse? No!, Systemsettings? No!
I would like essential settings config found more easily......
Does anyone know how to 'open/invoke' synaptiks to get this touchpad going?
All this because someone thought that gnome users would be confused if touchpad tap worked in the installer and no longer worked once Gnome was up and running (it's off by default in Gnome, and Gnome provides easy GUI to turn it on/off.. .KDE4 does not). :-( Sigh. Guessing... kcm_touchpad should be included in the default repositories and it should be included in the default install. Without it (or the alternative Synaptiks) KDE4 users are left without a way to enable touchpad tap - basically enabling a behavior which is standard on all other modern OSes. Synaptiks works, but as you discovered getting the daemon started can be a pain.... although... last I tested it, I just launched it once from the KMenu after installing and it worked. Once it's running you should have a new entry in Configure Desktop > Keyboard & Mouse. On any system I've tested on, Synaptiks added its own entry at the top level of this settings page, and kcm_touchpad added the touchpad optiosn to the Mouse sub-page (a more logical place). I've swapped over to using kcm_touchpad which is currently in the KDE4:Community repository. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org