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orangeshirt / gnome-shell-extension-touchpad-indicator

A touchpad indicator extension for gnome-shell
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Feature request: Lenovo ThinkPad clickpads #37

Open kumencz opened 10 years ago

kumencz commented 10 years ago

Lenovo ThinkPad notebooks since 2013 has trackpoints without buttons. They're using clickpad for trackpoint buttons (Lenovo ThinkPad T431). If I disable touchpad - tracpoint is unusable. It working for me: https://github.com/kumencz/gnome-shell-extension-touchpad-indicator/commit/1ca4e24d12cb4ef7e292556297eada20ec39dbfa it only enable button area on touchpad and other disable. If you have any idea how implement it...

Sorry for my bad english

orangeshirt commented 10 years ago

Sorry for my late reply. I stop the development of this extension, because I've no longer been using gnome shell. Thanks for this hint. I've got no quick idea how to implement this.

tuxor1337 commented 10 years ago

@kumencz: I thought about this, and your current workaround points in the right direction. However, it's not a good idea to set absolute values for the Touchpad Area. A clean implementation would instead store the user's Area coordinates before disabling the touchpad and restore them when enabling the touchpad.

Furthermore, you could add an option for this behaviour in the extension preferences or alternatively make it the standard behaviour for "clickpad" type touchpads.