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Auteur: Arnt Karlsen
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Aan: dng
Onderwerp: Re: [DNG] Devuan on a Purism
On Tue, 30 Oct 2018 14:01:03 -0400, Hendrik wrote in message
<20181030180103.7xwhnvyqbs6zntgg@???>:

> I use Devuan on a Purism laptop. Purism's OS is based on Debian, and
> has become contaminated with systemd.


..they blindly accepted it?

> So, naturally, I replaced it with Devuan.


..any response on that from puri.sm?

> It works very well, except for a problem with the touchpad.
>
> I can move the mouse pointer around by stroking the touch pad and I
> can do the usual left-click by pressing on the touchpad. I can do
> two-finger scrolling as well.
>
> On Purism's OS though I couls get a right-click by pushing down with
> two fingers, and a centre-click by pushing down with three fingers.
> This does not work on Devuan. To get these clicks I have resorted to
> a separate physical USB mouse.
>
> Is there any way to get this right- and centre-click emulation working
> on Devuan? Perhaps some missing driver or configuration?



..does this recipe work?:
https://www.evilcodingmonkey.com/2014/01/23/ubuntu-activate-multi-touch-on-elantech/

..found it here:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Elantech+Multitouch+Trackpad&ia=web

..https://duckduckgo.com/?q=PureOS+%22Elantech+Multitouch+Trackpad%22&ia=images
finds: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1166442

> I'm using ascii with LXQt.
>
> -- hendrik




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