New VoodooPS2Controller, Keyboard, Trackpad

[lambdan]

Cool stuff. Im on my hp probook 4330s, and it works great.
I feel like the left/right swipes arent so responsive, but I think thats because my fingers are too narrow.
Good job! I suspose you still cant register a 3-finger-tap tho, so I can set it to right click and have 2 finger tap as middle click ?

 

[RehabMan]

Cool stuff. Im on my hp probook 4330s, and it works great.
I feel like the left/right swipes arent so responsive, but I think thats because my fingers are too narrow.
Good job! I suspose you still cant register a 3-finger-tap tho, so I can set it to right click and have 2 finger tap as middle click ?

I will probably do the three/two finger tap configuration thing when I next look at making the swipe commands configurable. If you want to make sure I remember, it might be best to report it as an "issue" on the github repository.

 

[lambdan]

I will probably do the three/two finger tap configuration thing when I next look at making the swipe commands configurable. If you want to make sure I remember, it might be best to report it as an "issue" on the github repository.

Ah, no hurry. Do it when you get around to it. Appreciate all the work you put into all you do.

 

[snapchops]

There is one (that I inherited), but I have not been building it, because I haven't had time to look into it. Xcode shows a bunch of warnings related to both the code and the xib and I really have very little experience to the Mac GUI side of things, so confidence in fixing the issues was not high. Eventually, I'll look into it, but for now if you have some Xcode/Mac GUI experience, you could look at what is checked in. I don't recall seeing anything in the prefpane for your issue.

There are tweaks you can do in the Info.plist for the trackpad driver. That's probably where I would start. And you could run the debug version (and analyse Console output) to get an idea as to what data you are getting from the trackpad. I assume your trackpad is not a Probook trackpad.

No, my laptop is an Alienware m15x.

In versions 1.7.0 and 1.7.1 the clicking behavior was different. I needed to 2bl click the dock icons to launch programs, 2bl click firefox back button and 2bl click finder navigation. Since version 1.7.3 single click works on all of those which I prefer, but something else changed and my quick launch buttons for media (fast forward, cd eject, volume, wireless & cpu turbo mode produce the osx frog sound and don't work. They worked in versions 1.7.0 & 1.7.1. Can you tell me how to revert so I can keep the single clicking but get quick launch working again?

thanks

 

[RehabMan]

No, my laptop is an Alienware m15x.

In versions 1.7.0 and 1.7.1 the clicking behavior was different. I needed to 2bl click the dock icons to launch programs, 2bl click firefox back button and 2bl click finder navigation. Since version 1.7.3 single click works on all of those which I prefer, but something else changed and my quick launch buttons for media (fast forward, cd eject, volume, wireless & cpu turbo mode produce the osx frog sound and don't work. They worked in versions 1.7.0 & 1.7.1. Can you tell me how to revert so I can keep the single clicking but get quick launch working again?

thanks

Quick Launch buttons? Are you talking about the function keys on the keyboard or some other keys on the keyboard?

If so, you will probably want to check into doing a custom keyboard map for your laptop. The default keymap is for the Probook, but you can change it however you like for your specific keyboard hardware without modifying the code. See this article: https://github.com/RehabMan/OS-X-Voodoo-PS2-Controller/wiki/How-to-Use-Custom-Keyboard-Mapping

 

[Rourke]

I'm using three-finger left/right swipe to switch between spaces. But I have 2 things I want to use but cannot find how to get this done.

1. I'd like the two-finger left/right swipe to do a command+[ and command+] for back and forward in browser history
2. I'd like to have scroll momentum. On a macbook if you scroll up/down it keeps scrolling a bit if you "let go" in a certain way. You probably know what I mean.

 

[snapchops]

Quick Launch buttons? Are you talking about the function keys on the keyboard or some other keys on the keyboard?

If so, you will probably want to check into doing a custom keyboard map for your laptop. The default keymap is for the Probook, but you can change it however you like for your specific keyboard hardware without modifying the code. See this article: https://github.com/RehabMan/OS-X-Voodoo-PS2-Controller/wiki/How-to-Use-Custom-Keyboard-Mapping

These are separate from the keyboard and do not require hitting the function key . . .my function keys share the F keys. I'll check the article, but the behavior changed in version 1.7.3.

 

[RehabMan]

I'm using three-finger left/right swipe to switch between spaces. But I have 2 things I want to use but cannot find how to get this done.

1. I'd like the two-finger left/right swipe to do a command+[ and command+] for back and forward in browser history
2. I'd like to have scroll momentum. On a macbook if you scroll up/down it keeps scrolling a bit if you "let go" in a certain way. You probably know what I mean.

Neither of those two features are implemented at this time.

 

[Rourke]

Neither of those two features are implemented at this time.

Thanks for the answer. Hopefully in the future

 

[RehabMan]

These are separate from the keyboard and do not require hitting the function key . . .my function keys share the F keys. I'll check the article, but the behavior changed in version 1.7.3.

I think you answered my question -- these are keys. That is they are connected to the PS/2 keyboard interface and generate scan codes on the keyboard interrupt.

One thing that may be tripping you up is the default behavior of the function keys is reversed from normal PC keys (more like the Mac). You can get the standard function keys by pressing Fn+fkey, whereas you get media functions (those that might normally be on Fn+) by just pressing the function key standalone. This was implemented in 1.7.2.

But every PC laptop is unique with regard to the Fn+fkeys, so it is likely you're keyboard mappings may need to be adjusted, which is easy to do by editing the keyboard driver's Info.plist as discussed in the wiki.