Macbook Trackpad Issues

[Liam Proven]

On 16 October 2011 02:29, Alexander Campos <acampos1120 at gmail.com> wrote:
> hey guys new user here. I honestly have no idea what Im doing, heck I
> dont even know if Im doing this mailing list thing right (fingers
> crossed) so please take it easy on me. Ive got a macbook pro (maverick
> I believe?) running ubuntu 11.1. I have been pleasantly surprised for
> the most part at the amazing support and ease of use ubuntu has
> displayed, particularly with most of the macbooks hardware. However I
> have two persistent issues I cant seem to resolve. The lesser of the
> two is an odd issue with the "brightness keys" (F1 and F2) on the
> macbooks physical keyboard. they appear to do a good job of altering
> the brightness but once I have used these keys the macbooks overall
> screen brightness lessens dramatically and cannot be altered even from
> ubuntus preference pane. Is there any way to keep this from happening?
> Secondly Ive found the macbooks trackpad rather difficult to use. Im
> amazed at the multitouch support (two finger scrolling and the three
> finger drag work better at times than their OSX equivalents) but Ive
> found that, due to the unibody design of the trackpad I cannot rest my
> thumb on the lower portion of the trackpad whilst simultaneously
> moving the cursor with my other finger. The action merely registers as
> a two finger scrolling action. Bothersome to say the least. If someone
> could work me through these nagging issues or even point me to
> references on the web that may help Id really appreciate it.

I'm afraid I can't help on the brightness issue, as I only have an
iBook and an iMac G5 and I don't run Ubuntu on them. (I prefer OS X on
Macs.)

As for the scrolling thing, though, I think you're just going to have
to get used to that and get in the habit of not leaving one digit on
the trackpad while another digit is trying to do something.


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