Bug 498249

Summary:	Can't switch mapping for physical buttons, but not tap
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Bastien Nocera <bnocera>
Component:	gnome-settings-daemon	Assignee:	Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	low
Version:	rawhide	CC:	andreas, awilliam, bnocera, peter.hutterer, rstrode
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Description Bastien Nocera 2009-04-29 15:39:49 UTC

Either through lack of documentation, or because it's really not supported, there's no way to switch button mapping without reassigning the tap behaviour as well.

It should be possible to swap the left/right physical buttons on the touchpad, but let the "tap" be button 1.

Currently, gnome-settings-daemon will ignore all the touchpads. Once it's possible to swap only the physical buttons, we can remove that behaviour in gnome-settings-daemon.

Comment 1 Peter Hutterer 2009-04-29 22:07:13 UTC

This is awkward but: the button mapping is handled in the server, tapping in the driver.

So if you switch tapping to 3-2-1 and the device button mapping to 3-2-1, tap 1 comes through as button 1 while phys. button 1 comes through as button 3.

I'll add this to the man page.

Comment 2 Bastien Nocera 2009-04-29 22:54:47 UTC

How would we do this programmatically?

Comment 3 Peter Hutterer 2009-04-30 00:28:24 UTC

The button mapping through XSetDeviceButtonMapping as usual, the TapButton by changing the property on the synaptics driver. 

http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/rpms/gnome-settings-daemon/F-11/gnome-settings-daemon-2.26.0-support-touchpads.patch?revision=1.1&view=markup

set_tap_to_click (gboolean state) does it for the normal 1/3/2 mapping, you'd just need to set it to 3/1/2.

Comment 4 Adam Williamson 2009-07-17 18:10:06 UTC

Discussed at today's critical bug review meeting. Jesse opined that it's an annoyance, not truly an issue that should block release. I didn't have a strong opinion. So we're dropping it to F12Target on that basis.

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Comment 5 Peter Hutterer 2009-10-26 06:30:14 UTC

Filed as GNOME bug 599623 (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=599623)

Fixed in build: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=1768089
Requested for F12 final.

Comment 6 Adam Williamson 2009-10-27 01:25:07 UTC

tag request was accepted, closing.

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