synaptics state

[Peter Hutterer]

On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 01:37:57PM -0700, Paul Vojta wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 12:49:52PM -0700, Corbin Simpson wrote:
> > Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> > > [snip]
> > > 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.
> 
> My driver already does that:  option "TopEdgeScroll".  But, it produces
> button 6/7 (mouse) events, not keyboard events.  Having a mouse driver
> produce keyboard events may not be possible the way the X server is set up.
> Or, can it just call xf86PostKeyboardEvent (or whatever it's called)?

you can, but you need to call InitKeyboardDeviceStruct first on the device
correct structs inside the server. Evdev does that already, just have a look
at it.
 
Cheers,
  Peter