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You don't use the trackpad on a lenovo. You don't have to! Srsly while i do own now a macbook pro at work and really like the touchpad, i'm a touch quicker wit

by sigi45 8y ago

You don't use the trackpad on a lenovo. You don't have to! Srsly while i do own now a macbook pro at work and really like the touchpad, i'm a touch quicker with the red knob in combination with AwesomeWM as a window manager. Main advantage: my hands rests on the device and don't have to move below.

confounded 8y ago
I’m in the same boat; I’m fascinated by my colleagues’ ability to hurl their desktop around with macpad gestures, they’re fascinated by being all-keyboard with a tiling window manager (and occasional use of the nipple-thing when I have to click something). I disable trackpads, as I only ever use them accidentally. They both seem like great systems. All I know at this point is that I’m set in my ways :)
deathanatos 8y ago
I've actually taken to using the trackpad more often on my Thinkpad T460p; it seems to me the TrackPoint has actually regressed in recent years; on Linux: * the default sensitivity is very low; you really have to haul on it to move the pointer significantly. Worse, the hardware starts trying to "correct", making the motion harder and harder to accomplish! (And you can see the correction when you let go completely and the pointer just starts drifting for a while until the correction re-corrects) * attempting to change the settings results in the kernel driver crashing or something; errors get emitted to dmesg and the device resets. So setting two settings is tricky: you have to loop on setting the first setting, and then once that succeeds w/o crashing, loop on setting the second setting. If that fails, it's back to square 1![1][2] That said, the Touchpad is not as accurate as the TrackPoint can be, or at least, used to be. I mostly use an external small wireless mouse now, but that removes a hand from the keyboard. sigh [1]: Here is another user with the same issue, though he doesn't fully realize it: https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/58c0dn/t460s_trackpoint_slow_linux/d91tecl/ https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/58c0dn/t460s_trac... [2]: https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-input/msg51145.html https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-input/msg51145.html but alas, no response.
JadeNB 8y ago
> i'm a touch quicker with the red knob I would expect a longtime Lenovo user to know that "the red knob" is not the official unofficial name for that object. :-)
- sigi45 8y ago
  :-( What is it? I do have a german name in mind (knubbel) but i don't know how others call it?
  - JadeNB 8y ago
    > What is it? I do have a german name in mind (knubbel) but i don't know how others call it? Sorry, I was just making a crass joke. The name I had in mind is rather anatomical: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointing_stick#Informal_names https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointing_stick#Informal_names .

by sigi45 8y ago

confounded 8y ago

I’m in the same boat; I’m fascinated by my colleagues’ ability to hurl their desktop around with macpad gestures, they’re fascinated by being all-keyboard with a tiling window manager (and occasional use of the nipple-thing when I have to click something). I disable trackpads, as I only ever use them accidentally. They both seem like great systems. All I know at this point is that I’m set in my ways :)

deathanatos 8y ago

I've actually taken to using the trackpad more often on my Thinkpad T460p; it seems to me the TrackPoint has actually regressed in recent years; on Linux: * the default sensitivity is very low; you really have to haul on it to move the pointer significantly. Worse, the hardware starts trying to "correct", making the motion harder and harder to accomplish! (And you can see the correction when you let go completely and the pointer just starts drifting for a while until the correction re-corrects) * attempting to change the settings results in the kernel driver crashing or something; errors get emitted to dmesg and the device resets. So setting two settings is tricky: you have to loop on setting the first setting, and then once that succeeds w/o crashing, loop on setting the second setting. If that fails, it's back to square 1![1][2] That said, the Touchpad is not as accurate as the TrackPoint can be, or at least, used to be. I mostly use an external small wireless mouse now, but that removes a hand from the keyboard. sigh [1]: Here is another user with the same issue, though he doesn't fully realize it: https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/58c0dn/t460s_trackpoint_slow_linux/d91tecl/ https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/58c0dn/t460s_trac... [2]: https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-input/msg51145.html https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-input/msg51145.html but alas, no response.

JadeNB 8y ago

> i'm a touch quicker with the red knob I would expect a longtime Lenovo user to know that "the red knob" is not the official unofficial name for that object. :-)

sigi45 8y ago
:-( What is it? I do have a german name in mind (knubbel) but i don't know how others call it?
- JadeNB 8y ago
  > What is it? I do have a german name in mind (knubbel) but i don't know how others call it? Sorry, I was just making a crass joke. The name I had in mind is rather anatomical: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointing_stick#Informal_names https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointing_stick#Informal_names .