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I don't suppose there's much motivation to write Linux mouse drivers that detect the second mouse button and/or scrolling and swipe gestures on the Apple mouses
by quesera 14y ago
I don't suppose there's much motivation to write Linux mouse drivers that detect the second mouse button and/or scrolling and swipe gestures on the Apple mouses the same way Apple does.
But it's too bad, Apple went from making subpar mouses to some of the best I've ever used in the last five years or so. The trackpad is pretty great too.
- trueneverland 14y agoThis. The trackpad is godly. I haven't seen a PC equivalent.
- drx 14y agoAssuming you mean desktop and not laptop PC, there's this: http://www.apple.com/magictrackpad/ http://www.apple.com/magictrackpad/
- keeperofdakeys 14y agoLinux has been capable of driving multitouch trackpads for years (specifically the synaptic driver). Even then, it can 'fake' it on some, by detecting the width of the touch area. The main problem is all the touches must be handled in the driver, so pretty much only two finger scrolling, two finger click for right click and three finger click for middle click work. There is work going on to bring a proper multitouch api to xorg, so gestures can be used correctly.
- nuje 14y agoI've played around with multitouch on Ubuntu, it does work with some hardware (but not if the driver intercepts the touches and synthesizes something like scrollwheel events, that's bad). See eg. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Multitouch https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Multitouch and https://lists.launchpad.net/multi-touch-dev/msg00997.html https://lists.launchpad.net/multi-touch-dev/msg00997.html
- keeperofdakeys 14y agoI have full multitouch on this laptop, and use the two-finger scrolling and triple click that is provided by the synaptic driver everyday. The inability for programs to directly use gestures isn't great though.