Invisible wrote:
> Bill Pragnell wrote:
> 
>> And you know the best thing? On their laptops, tapping the touchpad 
>> with two fingers instead of just one performs a right-click (I don't 
>> think this is default behaviour, but it's in the desktop settings - 
>> and it's genius).
> 
> Gah. I *hate* that! I wish I knew how to disable that on my Linux 
> laptop... You go to make a big mouse movement, which involves lifting 
> your fingers off the glide pad and putting them down again several 
> times, and each time you do you end up randomly clicking something on 
> the screen. GRRR!

You must be joking! This sort of behaviour is what makes laptops usable 
without a mouse. Anyway, it's easy to avoid your problem on the Mac 
because the pointer speed varies non-linearly with finger speed. That 
is, move quickly and you can go from one side of the desktop to the 
other without lifting your finger, but move slowly and you get 
pixel-by-pixel accuracy.

Having seen the wealth of desktop settings in e.g. SUSE, I'd be very 
surprised if you couldn't set all this and more on your machine.

The other thing I like is scrolling the currently active window by 
moving two fingers on the touchpad instead of one. Better than a mouse 
scrollwheel cos you can go in any direction. This sort of thing makes 
most of my casual desktop use 10x faster than it otherwise would be. :-)

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