Thursday, March 24, 2011
Synaptics-1.4.0 patch for activating right-click function on clickpad
Last month, I have written about how to activate right-click function on clickpad by patching synaptics-1.3.0. In this page, I will show you how to patch synaptics-1.4.0 so that you can use right-click function (also, middle-click). The patch is patch for synaptics-1.3.0 with a few changes. For the modified patch, you can download it from here (gzip compressed). You can follow the instructions from my last note; just change the step 3 with this: copy this file to path-to/x11/patch/ (in my case, copy it to /home/henry/rsync/x11/patch/). The rest will be same. I also put my clickpad.conf on google docs so that you can download it and place it in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ then restart the X server.
12 comments:
hi Henry,
thanks for patch.
I have one question, do you know if clickpad turning off and on is working ?
on the top-left is area with small led for turning on/off (when double clicking on it). i have hp probook 4320s.
thanks.
Peter
Hi Peter,
I don't know. Currently, the LED is not working. The only one answer for your question, so far, use synclient -l | grep TouchpadOff
If the value is not one (1), the clickpad is ON or ON with exception.
from: man synaptics
Option "TouchpadOff" "integer"
Switch off the touchpad. Valid values are:
0 Touchpad is enabled
1 Touchpad is switched off
2 Only tapping and scrolling is switched off
Property: "Synaptics Off"
If you want to turn on/off your clickpad, use script. Click this link.
thank you Henry for a quick response !
i will use your script for turning on/off (method 1).
Peter
My pleasure.
Henry
When I patch 1.4.0 and try to build with your patch I am getting this error:
synaptics.c:1108:31: error: expected ')' before 'pInfo'
synaptics.c: In function 'update_hw_button_state':
synaptics.c:2387:8: warning: implicit declaration of function 'HandleClickpad'
Any ideas on this?
Thanks
Hi Brandon,
I have checked the patch again and recompile the source, nothing wrong. Could you post that line (with +/- 3 lines on above & below) to me?
Henry
Here is a gist of the patch. The only thing that I modified was the paths to the files as far as I know.
https://gist.github.com/916017
Thanks
Henry
Here is a gist of synaptics.c if that will help also.
https://gist.github.com/916041
Thanks
Hi Brandon,
My apology for delayed reply.
I have checked using diff and there is no difference between your file and mine on the code. In my system, it can be compiled.
btw, what is your distro?
I have the same issue on compilation. I'm usign Fedora15 with 1.4.0.901 version.
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/temp/xf86-input-synaptics-1.4.0.901/src'
CC synaptics.lo
synaptics.c:1108:16: error: unknown type name 'LocalDevicePtr'
synaptics.c: In function 'update_hw_button_state':
synaptics.c:2387:8: warning: implicit declaration of function 'HandleClickpad' [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
make[2]: *** [synaptics.lo] Errore 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/temp/xf86-input-synaptics-1.4.0.901/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Errore 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/temp/xf86-input-synaptics-1.4.0.901'
make: *** [all] Errore 2
Do you have some idea about this, but, first of all thank you for helping, and an special thank you to you for publishing for Slackware :) (I use to use that distribution before passing to Fedora).
Alex.
Hi Alex,
I have re-checked the patch, I found no error. For that error, I don't have idea. Sorry, I cannot help you for that.
hello and thanks, you are my last hope hahaha
I still have a problem on my laptop hp4320s, I did everything as said and still no result, maybe the /X11/xorg.conf.d/randomname.conf!? couse its still as it was before :P
<3 Mihael
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