mac scrolling with gentoo? [TO A DEGREE]

[quickshiftin]

does anybody know if gentoo supports the scroll functionality with the touchpad in the same fashion osx does? that is if you have 2 fingers on the touch pad scrolling is enabled anywhere on the pad, in any direction (you mac guys know what im talking about :>).

-quickshiftin

[glowworm]

hehe, yeah I saw this the other day on my sister in laws Mac. Quite a nice feature.

Synaptic touchpads do it too, but you drag your finger up/down the right side of the touchpad. (Button 4/5) and across the bottom to scroll left/right (button 6/7)

*Some* models also support two finger taps but this is interpreted as a middle button click. a three finger tap is a right button click while a one button tap is a left button.
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[quickshiftin]

i know about this feature from my days with gentoo on an ibm laptop; this is what im used to from my p3 windows laptop days as well; but the 2 finger touch system on the mac is really *slick*. i was hoping to find someone whose got it working with gentoo...
no matter, i will still be loading gentoo onto my g4 power book on a new 7200rpm drive
anybody ever comes across a hack for this, just hollar!

-quickshiftin

[Shadow Skill]

This can indeed be rigged to a degree with touchpads in Gentoo I do what glowworm described.

Does anyone know how to turn this behavior off?
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[quickshiftin]

i have finally gotten around to installing synaptics which sits on top of the appletouch driver in the case of my powerbook.
surprisingly i must report that in addition to the function which allows scrolling along the right side of the touchpad and across the bottom; scrolling similar to the mac is supported as well.

2 fingers can be placed on the pad and then moved to drag, but honestly its not as smooth and responsive as in osx. also i dont know if this is available on all touchpads (thinking probly just the macs ) i often would have to make several attempts to get the feature to work. so im just using the standard synaptics scrolling features along the sides of the pad. i dont mind this at all because as i mentioned i used this setup back in the day on my p4 and p3 windows laptops.

i have to say though the 2 finger feature on the mac is definately got a slight edge in cool and in usability. im sure synaptics will get it smoothed out after a while.

also i have configured the 2 finger and 3 finger taps to emulate right and middle button clicks respectively. this comes in very handy on the mac laptop with only one mouse button and this is much better than the alt + mouse button right click in osx so all together id say linux and osx are about even here.

as far as enabling or disabling the features you can configure synaptics in /etc/X11/xorg.conf
here is a reference on the gentoo wiki.

lastly i want to mention that for other powerbook users, using the settings from that guide in the wiki did not turn out so well; i found some documentation on my system for the apple touch driver which actually had suggestions for synaptics settings and with a little tweaking its working great.
here is the name of the file on my system
/usr/src/linux-2.6.17-gentoo-r4/Documentation/input/appletouch.txt

and the command i used to find it