[Nix-dev] synaptics touchpad configuration question

Luca Bruno lethalman88 at gmail.com
Sun Mar 15 21:36:48 CET 2015


You can check the contents of xorg.conf, look at ps ax there should be the
X process running with a particular configuration. Look there if there's
any culprit with the config first.

On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 5:11 PM, Brandon Barker <brandon.barker at cornell.edu>
wrote:

> I have the following in my configuration.nix:
>
>   # Enable the X11 windowing system.
>   services.xserver = {
>     enable = true;
>     layout = "us";
>     videoDrivers = [ "nvidia" ];
>     synaptics = {
>       enable = true;
>       additionalOptions =
>       ''
>         *Option "RBCornerButton" "3"*
>       '';
>     };
>     desktopManager.xfce.enable = true;
>   };
>
>
> But when I `nixos-rebuild switch` and `reboot`, then check my current
> configuration with `synclient -l` I see the following:
>
>     RBCornerButton          = 0
>
> And indeed I still can't right-click.
>
> Any tips would be greatly appreciated; this is really the last hurdle (not
> that there were any others really) in getting nixos working on my ideapad,
> which up until now has been very resistant to any linux installers over the
> last few years, partly because nouveau is often the default driver, which
> doesn't work at all for me. Luckily it is very easy to install nixos from
> the command line with the help of a few docs. I think this is the first
> time I've had a ZFS root drive in Linux, maybe in any OS (still not an
> option in the Ubuntu installer btw).
>
> --
> Brandon E. Barker
> http://www.cac.cornell.edu/barker/
>
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