Monthly archives: December 2015

Apparently, the Synaptics driver was replaced by libinput in Fedora 22, which doesn’t currently support kinetic/inertial scrolling. Here’s how to get it working. Copy /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/51-synaptics.conf, add the following to the bottom, and reboot: Section “InputClass” Identifier “Enable kinetic scrolling for Elan Touchpad” MatchProduct “Elan Touchpad” MatchDriver “synaptics” Option “CoastingSpeed” “20” Option “CoastingFriction” “50” …

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As is usual with computery things, there are many ways to do this. But, this is my preferred method: sudo touch /etc/udev/hwdb.d/61-keyboard.hwdb sudo vim /etc/udev/hwdb.d/61-keyboard.hwdb # Acer Chromebook 15 # Top row keys (between ESC and power button) evdev:atkbd:dmi:bvn*:bvr*:bd*:svnGOOGLE*:pnAuron_Yuna:pvr* # KEYBOARD_KEY_3b=back # KEYBOARD_KEY_3c=forward # KEYBOARD_KEY_3d=refresh # KEYBOARD_KEY_3f=switchvideomode KEYBOARD_KEY_40=home KEYBOARD_KEY_41=end KEYBOARD_KEY_42=delete KEYBOARD_KEY_43=pageup KEYBOARD_KEY_44=pagedown KEYBOARD_KEY_db=search # Same …

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The overall problem. Work have given me a MacBook Pro to use, although they’re not too enamoured at the thought of me putting Linux on the internal SSD. I must haz Linux. The overall answer. I had a 128GB M2 SSD in my Acer Chromebook 15 at home, so I purchased a USB M2 SSD …

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