[03:52] <jkyle> good evening!
[03:53] <jkyle> weird question, but is there an easy way to disable the left/right click on a trackpad in ubuntu desktop? I mean, I know there's a way...but any leads would be great
[03:55] <sarnold> jkyle: try fiddling with synclient -- iirc there's several different kinds of trackpads, and synclient works with some of them but not all. if yours doesn't work with synclient hopefully it's a reasonaable enough starting point..
[03:56] <jkyle> it works great. I just don't like the split zone right click. I'd rather all clicks to be left, and 2 finger click for the context menus
[03:57] <sarnold> i'm pretty sure that's expressable via synclient
[03:57] <jkyle> cool, I'll start my google safari there. thanks!
[03:57] <sarnold> does syclient -l output look reasonable? if it doesn't look like noise, then check out the manpage :) if it looks suspiciously like all zeros or soemthing, maybe it's not the right tool
[04:00] <jkyle> synclient -l looks solid
[04:00] <jkyle> retraining my motor memory is....interesting
[04:01] <sarnold> oh my yes
[04:01] <sarnold> I've hated half the changes I've made via synclient :)
[04:02] <jkyle> synclient RightButtonAreaLeft=0 and synclient RightButtonAreaTop=0
[04:02] <jkyle> does the trick
[04:03] <jkyle> luckily I most live in vim and terminals...so not too much to retrain. but damn that right click button :P
[04:03] <sarnold> i'm sorry to say I don't know the best way to set this up to run on login; I was always content to stuff it in the script that starts up all my terminals
[04:03] <sarnold> hehehe
[04:04] <jkyle> it's all about teh keywords
[04:04] <jkyle> https://askubuntu.com/questions/602193/how-to-disable-right-click-on-the-touchpad
[04:05] <jkyle> didn't find it till I included synclient in the search
[04:07] <jkyle> so I used a tiling window manager on the mac side. looking for something for ubuntu. I'd like something that works with the default desktop and 'just works' out the box with some hotkeys for different layouts.
[04:07] <jkyle> did some googling but turned up things like "first. learn haskel"
[04:07] <sarnold> lol
[04:07]  * sarnold patpats the xmonad fans
[04:08] <sarnold> jkyle: dwm is popular but step one is changing the config in the source code before recompiling it. I used i3wm very happily for many years; before that, I used ion3 mostly-happily, but the author ragequit and others took it over as notion or notion3 or something. ratpoison is always mentioned but I don't think I ran itmore than a few hours, if at all
[04:09] <sarnold> and I'm pretty sure you can run xmonad without learning haskell, but it may be harder to configure as you wish
[04:09] <jkyle> mothers of necessary invention or something like that. I'll try xmonad see how far it gets me :)
[04:10] <jkyle> saw i3 pop up a few times....you stopped using it? do you use it now?
[04:12] <sarnold> I currently use unity7 (on the 'eat own dogfood' principle) -- it's juuuust good enough at pretending to be tiling window manager that I don't hate it, but I suspect I'll return to i3wm or give dwm another try once I upgrade to a system where unity7 isn't the default
[04:18] <jkyle> so these commands I'm seeing in the i3 tut, 'apt update' instead of apt-get update and 'apt install' instead of 'apt-get install'....that's some new magic eh?
[04:19] <sarnold> yeah
[04:19] <sarnold> colours and progress bars and ever-so-slightly-different semantics
[04:21] <jkyle> mmm I love me some arbitrary nuance to my system commands :)
[04:21] <jkyle> but 4 less characters. +1
[04:22] <sarnold> see the bit about motor memory :)
[04:23] <sarnold> 17~18 years of sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -u dist-upgrade   is a hard habit to break :)
[04:24] <jkyle> yeah
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