Help me fix this touch-madness anyone? (Touchpad/touchscrn)
Posted: Aug 13th, '14, 14:03Hi there,
I have got here an interesting machine. Inhon Carbonbook. I got it as a present for my 30s birthday from a friend.
I still havent made up my mind as do i hate it or love it. It has some advantages, its quite powerfull and lightweit. Its actually a real ultrabook so to speak.
But it has some issues. There are some design flaws. First it can sometimes overheat quite a bit.
But the main thing is. It has a touch sceeen. Back when i first saw laptops with touchscreens i tought nah not really interesting. But then i thought, uhm, why not, you dont have to use it. And if you have it yo actually can use it.
But no. Now have one. And it actually only disturbs me from time to time pissing me off. Mostly when you push it unexpectedly.
And another thing is. Its touchpad works terrible.
You see there are no buttons. And everytime when i try to push a left 'button' (side of the touchpad)with the left hand to hold a window and move it moving my finger from the right hand over the touchpad. It starts jumping like crazy all over the screen not understanding my input. Doing pushes and drags all sort of stuff all over the screen.
Ok i got an external mouse. Obviousely. But its hard to say this behaviour is joyful.
So i wonder does anyone know anything i can install setup to let this touchpad work in a normal way?
Or any linux distro that would actually make it work, having better support for this sort of stuff?
I tried already OpenSuse and Fedora, and now am running Mageia Gnome. (Thought Gnome 3 would fit the touchscreen somewhat better then the KDE).
And i would really love to just turn off the touchscreen functionality comletely. This way i think i could come to really love this rare beast.
Or is it maybe so that this sort of hardware is so rare that this is its problem that it has the possibility of maybe not be able to even work decentely on Linux?
Thanks in advance,
BH
I have got here an interesting machine. Inhon Carbonbook. I got it as a present for my 30s birthday from a friend.
I still havent made up my mind as do i hate it or love it. It has some advantages, its quite powerfull and lightweit. Its actually a real ultrabook so to speak.
But it has some issues. There are some design flaws. First it can sometimes overheat quite a bit.
But the main thing is. It has a touch sceeen. Back when i first saw laptops with touchscreens i tought nah not really interesting. But then i thought, uhm, why not, you dont have to use it. And if you have it yo actually can use it.
But no. Now have one. And it actually only disturbs me from time to time pissing me off. Mostly when you push it unexpectedly.
And another thing is. Its touchpad works terrible.
You see there are no buttons. And everytime when i try to push a left 'button' (side of the touchpad)with the left hand to hold a window and move it moving my finger from the right hand over the touchpad. It starts jumping like crazy all over the screen not understanding my input. Doing pushes and drags all sort of stuff all over the screen.
Ok i got an external mouse. Obviousely. But its hard to say this behaviour is joyful.
So i wonder does anyone know anything i can install setup to let this touchpad work in a normal way?
Or any linux distro that would actually make it work, having better support for this sort of stuff?
I tried already OpenSuse and Fedora, and now am running Mageia Gnome. (Thought Gnome 3 would fit the touchscreen somewhat better then the KDE).
And i would really love to just turn off the touchscreen functionality comletely. This way i think i could come to really love this rare beast.
Or is it maybe so that this sort of hardware is so rare that this is its problem that it has the possibility of maybe not be able to even work decentely on Linux?
Thanks in advance,
BH
