Touchpad

[Axios]

Hi

The touchpad on my iBook 12" 1,2 Ghz G4 works fine, just wondering how to right click, or even how do the middle click?

When i runned OSX on it, i had a driver, so that when I used to fingers, it would scroll down and sideways, is this possibly to get running in Ubuntu also?

Another thing, is there and option to disable the touchpad when I plug in a mouse? I had this setup in OSX, so that when I plugged in my mouse it automaticly disabled my touchpad, this was really neat, because when Im using the keyboard I sometimes stroke the touchpad. This isn't as mouch a problem since I cant tap the touchpad in Ubuntu either.


I am really impressed with Ubuntu PPC.

[yeti]

Im having trouble with this too... more just how to get right/middle click, so if anyone can point us in the right direction that would be great.

[er-ku]

[oops... sorry for double posting]

[er-ku]

Hello,

The touchpad on my iBook 12" 1,2 Ghz G4 works fine, just wondering how to right click, or even how do the middle click?

By default in Ubuntu, you use F11 and F12 keys for middle/right click.

That's incomfortable however, so i'd suggest you to connect an USB mouse to your laptop. :)

When i runned OSX on it, i had a driver, so that when I used to fingers, it would scroll down and sideways, is this possibly to get running in Ubuntu also?

You may give GSynaptics (http://gsynaptics.sourceforge.jp/) a try. I haven't tried it on a PowerPC though.

Another thing, is there and option to disable the touchpad when I plug in a mouse? I had this setup in OSX, so that when I plugged in my mouse it automaticly disabled my touchpad, this was really neat, because when Im using the keyboard I sometimes stroke the touchpad. This isn't as mouch a problem since I cant tap the touchpad in Ubuntu either.

This should be possible, but I don't know HOW to do that. Someone should probably write a Wiki how-to on how to do that. ;)

[Axios]

There isn't a .deb for ubuntu ppc :(

[hentaidan]

This isn't as mouch a problem since I cant tap the touchpad in Ubuntu either.

Do you mean that you can't "tap to click" with the touchpad? Can you still use the mouse button? If so I (and others) would greatly appreciate how you managed it!

On my ibook I use the apple keys as right click, and the enter (the one to the right of the right apple key) as middle click, or apple key + mouse button.

If you want to remap your keyboard you can use xmodmap; there should be a post further down about how to use it in conjuction with xev, or take a look at the man page for both.

[yeti]

I found this on another thread (http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=431865&postcount=3)

Hi Amanda, I noted this down when I set mine g3500 ibook up... i used the apple key as my right click...

** Setup left Click mouse function to apple keys (default with ubuntu is F12 - miles away !)
sudo showkey - then press the keys you want to find the scancode for. *eg - apple key = 0x7d = 125decimal
sudo nano /etc/sysctl.conf
change the MouseButton2 entry to the code you want for left click.
reboot.

Cheers - Scott.

Only I found that to change the right click to the apple keys that I had to use the MouseButton3 field.