ajgraves Now I need to figure out how to get the keys to trigger it
Run xev. The keys should show up as XF86...
Or, run this script:
#!/bin/sh
#
# showkey.sh: de-clutter xev(1) key output.
exec xev -event keyboard | awk '
BEGIN {
RS = ""
}
/^Key(Press|Release) / {
l = $0
sub(/ event.+keysym 0x[[:xdigit:]]+,/, "", l);
sub(/\), .+$/, "", l)
print l
}'ajgraves I will email you.
Got it.
ajgraves I'm a long-time ARPA member.
Same here.
rvp Or, run this script
Thanks! The audio up/down keys are captured, but unfortunately the brightness keys are not. I have a work around though, I did keyboard shortcuts in xfce for Ctrl+Alt+Shift++ and - for brightness up/down. I'll work on audio later but at least I know how to see what keys to attempt to capture there. Curiously, xfce4-mixer appears to be missing from packages.
rvp 2-finger scrolling: This works only on some touchpads
Do we know which trackpad's inarticular are supported?
ajgraves I haven't installed OpenBSD on this machine yet, but it just works on my other Lenovo hardware. I wonder what's different in their setup/driver.
I'd be interested to know the conclusion here, ie. is it a different trackpad or does OpenBSD have more driver support for more trackpads?
pfr I'd be interested to know the conclusion here, ie. is it a different trackpad or does OpenBSD have more driver support for more trackpads?
I'm still tinkering with NetBSD on this particular machine. To be fair, the trackpad is very different from that on my other Lenovo systems. If I decided to put OpenBSD on it I'll report back on how it functions there.
ajgraves That would be ace. I'm tempted to buy myself an X1 Nano and use NetBSD on that, but I also cannot live without trackpad multi finger input. I put up with it on my X230 but If I'm spending a bit of money on a laptop I'd love to know what is going to work and what isn't.
pfr Do we know which trackpad's inarticular are supported?
You're asking a guy who goes out of his way to disable his touchpad ...?
Aside from grovelling through the source and xref'ing against the datasheets, I dunno. Try it and see, I guess. See here. Same manufacturer, but different models: his works, mine doesn't.
pfr sys/dev/pckbport/synaptics.c attempts to scroll based on Synaptics' "finger width detection". It was intended to be the case in NetBSD that scrolling is activated when two fingers are held together on the pad. Synaptics basically broke this feature in their hardware at some point (my hardware's reported figures oscillate horribly). Try lowering sysctl hw.synaptics.finger_scroll-min then holding two fingers together on the pad. It might work for you!
In comparison, sys/dev/pckbport/elantech.c scrolls when two fingers are detected on the pad, regardless of their proximity. This is much easier to do and much cleaner. Briefly, the synaptics driver did this, but I had to revert it because it broke other gestures that are required on trackpads that lack buttons entirely, and I don't have hardware to test those (check the CVS history). I'm happy with arrow keys and trackpoint scrolling, tbh.
Anyway, this is probably also possible to emulate using Xorg's mousedrv(4) - see the EmulateWheel option.
Some reading https://marc.info/?l=netbsd-current-users&m=158450374625332&w=2
nia to emulate using Xorg's mousedrv(4)
There you go: excellent suggestion.
It works!:
so I’m going to return the one I bought and get a regular m.2 sata SSD. Once I’ve done that I’ll drop OpenBSD on it.
$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/mouse.conf
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Device" "/dev/wsmouse"
Option "EmulateWheel" "on"
Option "EmulateWheelButton" "3"
Option "YAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
$Right click, then up & down to scroll.
rvp Besides adding /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/mouse.conf Do I need to do anything else?
nia Try lowering sysctl hw.synaptics.finger_scroll-min then holding two fingers together on the pad. It might work for you!
Unfortunately that didn’t work, but thank you for the suggestion and the history into the driver!
rvp Right click, then up & down to scroll.
Alright so that seems to get it to work! However because of the right click first, it requires some awkward 3-finger movement on the trackpad that I’ll need to get used to. Any thoughts on accomplishing this without the right click first? Not sure that wouldn’t cause new problems.
Please excuse my missunderstanding. but I've added copied the above example of mouse.conf into place (which previously did not exist) and right clicking on any webpage will obviously bring up the right-click menu. I'm not quite sure how it is supposed to work.
rvp
Oh damn, I didn't realise I needed to hold down the right mouse button!
Ok it works, Cheers. I'll set it to te middle button
Here's a curve ball for ya.. Is there a way to set tablet scrolling mode? ie. opposite direction scrolling, swipe up on trackpad scrolls the page down and vice versa. YAxisMapping perhaps?
