synaptics state

[Corbin Simpson]

Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> On Sunday, 8 June 2008 09:18:15 Paul Vojta wrote:
>> On Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 08:17:05PM +0200, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:
>>> On Saturday 07 June 2008, Hanno Böck wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> What is the state of the synaptics driver?
>>>>
>>>> It seems the last thing that happened was the relicensing, though a
>>>> relicensed version was never published. (who did the relicensing? can you
>>>> comment on it?)
>>>>
>>>> It doesn't compile against current xorg-server git, since the mpx-changes.
>> As I recall, there was a second set of licensing changes that were asked
>> for, and not all of the authors could be reached for that second set.
>> Or maybe not all of them agreed.
>>
>> However, have a look at my latest synaptics driver, and let me know if
>> you'd prefer to make that one the offical one.  It is still not as
>> featureful as the other driver, but I feel that it operates better and
>> I can work on bringing it closer to being fully featured.
>>
>> Here is the url:
>>
>> 	http://math.berkeley.edu/~vojta/xf86-input-synaptics-0.99.2.tar.bz2
>>
>> The man page may be incomplete, but I can fix that fairly quickly.
>>
> 
> Small question,
> 
> I noticed that windows synaptic driver has a feature that
> moving a finger on top edge sends back/forward keyboard events
> 
> Does some version of synaptic driver support this?
> 

Might be able to edit the driver to allow switching the horizontal
scroll from the bottom edge to the top edge.

~ C.