flSynclient 0.5 review

flSynclient i a synaptics touchpads frontend build with the fltk (www.fltk.org) toolkit

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 10K Developer: Matteo Lucarelli

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flSynclient i a synaptics touchpads frontend build with the fltk (www.fltk.org) toolkit. Uses synclient, a command line tool to set the driver. It is free software, released under the GNU GPL licence.

Requirements:
FLTK
XOrg/XFree86 Synaptics TouchPad Driver
synclient

Installation:

Expand the archive: tar xzf flSynclientX.X.tgz
Enter in the created directory: cd flSynclientX.x
Compile: make
install (as root user): cp ./flSynclient /usr/local/bin/

Note

Real time setting is possibile only if "shared memory" option is enabled. IXF86Config/xorg.conf should contains something like:

------------------------------------------------------------------
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "touchpad"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "SHMConfig" "on"
EndSection
...
Section "ServerLayout"
...
InputDevice "touchpad" "AlwaysCore"
EndSection
------------------------------------------------------------------