C schreef:
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.
In 11.2 it just works, but causes during installation a lot of pain, especialy when wanting to edit partitions etc.. It caused me to start over the installation 5 times because of the unjust actions taken by mouseover/selecting/choosing > wrong action: an error has occured > ncurses > start installation etc.. I learned only to use alt+underlinedsymbol in 11.2, but in 11.3 it did not work anymore, i just found the button configured too sensetive in 11.2....
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.
No entrance in Kmenu here...
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.
I'll try to install kcm_touchpad from community than.. The plasma desktop in KDE4 inn 11.3M7 has only: Configure desktop activity. A mouse can be configured there, but no touchpad... -- Enjoy your time around, Oddball, aka M9. OS: Linux 2.6.27.19-3.2-default x86_64 Huidige gebruiker: oddball@AMD64x2-sfn1 Systeem: openSUSE 11.1 (x86_64) KDE: 4.2.1 (KDE 4.2.1) "release 103" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org