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Distribution: LXLE 18.04, MX 18, Mint XFCE, antiX 17
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^ Thanks for that, in the distro I use on a day to day basis (Mint Cinnamon 17.3) this works exactly as you say, but 4M is a bit of a law unto itself. Its default (and only?) window manager, JWM, is very basic and makes no reference to the touchpad in its 'Mouse and Keyboard' feature. I'm hoping there'll be a text file that can be edited or some solution via the Terminal....
Distribution: LXLE 18.04, MX 18, Mint XFCE, antiX 17
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Thanks for the link - that stuff looks very interesting, even if at least 90% of it is beyond my level of comprehension at this point in time, and any mention of 'drivers' always sends me running for the hills...I did have a quick trawl through various folders using the 4M File Manager, but couldn't see anything with 'synaptics' in it.
Last edited by Summer Deep; 10-23-2016 at 02:00 PM.
I will try to add such an option in 4MLinux 21.0 (4MLinux 20.0 is now "frozen"; it will become stable in several days, so it's too late to add new features).
Somewhat "brutal" workaround: move/rename/delete the /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/synaptics_drv.so and restart X.
Distribution: LXLE 18.04, MX 18, Mint XFCE, antiX 17
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Thanks for the workaround zk, that works perfectly! The Quake demo is a lot of fun by the way, but is not as problem-free as the Freedoom games on the distro. It's crashed a few times (though maybe the touchpad issue was responsible for some of that), but I've also noticed that when reloading saved games, the control options are always reset to their defaults and need to be reconfigured every time. Not sure whether this is a bug, or whether it can be remedied.
Thanks for the workaround zk, that works perfectly! The Quake demo is a lot of fun by the way, but is not as problem-free as the Freedoom games on the distro. It's crashed a few times (though maybe the touchpad issue was responsible for some of that), but I've also noticed that when reloading saved games, the control options are always reset to their defaults and need to be reconfigured every time. Not sure whether this is a bug, or whether it can be remedied.
Thanks for reporting this issue. I will have a look at this in the nearest future .
Distribution: LXLE 18.04, MX 18, Mint XFCE, antiX 17
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Thanks for reporting this issue. I will have a look at this in the nearest future .
....though it's maybe not quite as bad as appears from my previous post. The control settings only revert to default if the player quits the game then reloads a saved game - within a continuous playing session the settings remain intact.
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