Rotate touchpad to match screen?

[celticbhoy]

I have a netbook that I sometimes hold sideways on (like a book) using the screen rotation from the display applet. I would like to know if it is possible to rotate the touchpad in the same way?

[celticbhoy]

Bump....

[Zorael]

I'm not sure there is, unless there's a way to tell X specifically that all incoming mouse events should be rotated.
Device 'SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad':
Device Enabled (90): 1
Synaptics Edges (237): 1632, 5312, 1575, 4281
Synaptics Finger (238): 24, 29, 255
Synaptics Tap Time (239): 180
Synaptics Tap Move (240): 221
Synaptics Tap Durations (241): 180, 180, 100
Synaptics Tap FastTap (242): 0
Synaptics Middle Button Timeout (243): 75
Synaptics Two-Finger Pressure (244): 280
Synaptics Scrolling Distance (245): 100, 100
Synaptics Edge Scrolling (246): 1, 0, 0
Synaptics Two-Finger Scrolling (247): 0, 0
Synaptics Edge Motion Pressure (248): 29, 159
Synaptics Edge Motion Speed (249): 1, 401
Synaptics Edge Motion Always (250): 0
Synaptics Button Scrolling (251): 1, 1
Synaptics Button Scrolling Repeat (252): 1, 1
Synaptics Button Scrolling Time (253): 100
Synaptics Off (254): 0
Synaptics Guestmouse Off (255): 0
Synaptics Locked Drags (256): 0
Synaptics Locked Drags Timeout (257): 5000
Synaptics Tap Action (258): 2, 3, 0, 0, 1, 2, 3
Synaptics Click Action (259): 1, 1, 1
Synaptics Circular Scrolling (260): 0
Synaptics Circular Scrolling Trigger (261): 0
Synaptics Circular Pad (262): 0
Synaptics Palm Detection (263): 0
Synaptics Palm Dimensions (264): 10, 199
Synaptics Pressure Motion (265): 29, 159
Synaptics Grab Event Device (266): 1
Those are the Synaptics xinput settings available to me on Jaunty. Compare to what's available for my connected Logitech cordless mouse;
Device 'Logitech USB Receiver':
Device Enabled (90): 1
Evdev Axis Inversion (236): 0, 0
Evdev Reopen Attempts (225): 10
Evdev Axis Calibration (226):
Evdev Axes Swap (227): 0
Evdev Middle Button Emulation (228): 2
Evdev Middle Button Timeout (229): 50
Evdev Wheel Emulation (230): 0
Evdev Wheel Emulation Axes (231): 0, 0, 4, 5
Evdev Wheel Emulation Inertia (232): 10
Evdev Wheel Emulation Timeout (233): 200
Evdev Wheel Emulation Button (234): 4
Evdev Drag Lock Buttons (235): 0
So the evdev "driver" can swap and invert axes, but the synaptics one can't.

Perhaps that's worthy of a wishlist report on the freedesktop.org bug tracker (http://bugs.freedesktop.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=&product=xorg&component=Input%2Fsynaptics), or on Launchpad? Of course, you could load your touchpad with the evdev driver too, but you'd lose out on drag-to-scroll, tap-to-click, and other stuff.


edit: Addendum; Karmic options.
Device 'SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad':
Device Enabled (89): 1
Synaptics Edges (236): 394, 5235, 1491, 5527
Synaptics Finger (237): 24, 29, 255
Synaptics Tap Time (238): 180
Synaptics Tap Move (239): 221
Synaptics Tap Durations (240): 180, 180, 100
Synaptics Tap FastTap (241): 0
Synaptics Middle Button Timeout (242): 75
Synaptics Two-Finger Pressure (243): 280
Synaptics Two-Finger Width (244): 7
Synaptics Scrolling Distance (245): 100, 100
Synaptics Edge Scrolling (246): 1, 0, 0
Synaptics Two-Finger Scrolling (247): 1, 0
Synaptics Move Speed (248): 0.400000, 0.700000, 0.009952, 40.000000
Synaptics Edge Motion Pressure (249): 29, 159
Synaptics Edge Motion Speed (250): 1, 401
Synaptics Edge Motion Always (251): 0
Synaptics Button Scrolling (252): 1, 1
Synaptics Button Scrolling Repeat (253): 1, 1
Synaptics Button Scrolling Time (254): 100
Synaptics Off (255): 0
Synaptics Guestmouse Off (256): 0
Synaptics Locked Drags (257): 0
Synaptics Locked Drags Timeout (258): 5000
Synaptics Tap Action (259): 2, 3, 0, 0, 1, 2, 3
Synaptics Click Action (260): 1, 1, 1
Synaptics Circular Scrolling (261): 0
Synaptics Circular Scrolling Distance (262): 0.100000
Synaptics Circular Scrolling Trigger (263): 0
Synaptics Circular Pad (264): 0
Synaptics Palm Detection (265): 0
Synaptics Palm Dimensions (266): 10, 199
Synaptics Coasting Speed (267): 0.000000
Synaptics Pressure Motion (268): 29, 159
Synaptics Pressure Motion Factor (269): 1.000000, 1.000000
Synaptics Grab Event Device (270): 1
Synaptics Gestures (271): 1
Synaptics Capabilities (272): 1, 1, 1, 1, 1
Synaptics Pad Resolution (273): 88, 58
Synaptics Area (274): 0, 0, 0, 0

[celticbhoy]

Just put a suggestion on the brainstorm.

[diegorodriguezv]

I'm doing something similar in my Hardy for a Genius Traveler 350 trackball to invert the axes and switch some buttons.

Here is the relevant xorg.conf section:

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
# Invert Axes
Option "InvX" "1"
Option "InvY" "1"
# Invert wheel-up / wheel-down
Option "ZAxisMapping" "5 4"
# Invert middle and right mouse buttons
# Invert back and forward buttons also
Option "ButtonMapping" "1 3 2 9 8"
EndSection


They are properties of the "mouse" driver, I found this in google "man mouse" or "option invx".

Hope it helps.

[diegorodriguezv]

I've struggled trying to make the same changes in Jaunty but I couldn't, it seemed that the X server wasn't reading the xorg.config file so I sticked to Hardy.

Fiddling again in Karmic I had the same problem but I resolved it with the following commands:


xinput set-button-map "KYE Traveler 350" 1 3 2 5 4 6 7 9 8
xinput set-int-prop "KYE Traveler 350" "Evdev Axis Inversion" 8 1 1


To make this commands run every boot I just added them at System > Preferences > Startup Applications (or something like that, my desktop is in spanish).

[lacunoso]

You can use a patched synaptics. ;)
http://cc.oulu.fi/~rantalai/synaptics/