Axis inversion and swapping in synaptics

[Peter Hutterer]

On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 03:29:15PM +0200, Éric Piel wrote:
> Currently the evdev driver has two input properties to allow swapping
> and inversion of the axes of pointer devices. It would be great if the
> synaptics driver had the same properties (because I'd like to rotate my
> touchpad). Is there any plan to implement this? The driver modification
> should not be too difficult as there has been already a trial a few
> months ago [1].
> 
> In particular, what would be the name of the input properties? For now
> in evdev they are named like "Evdev Axes Swap". It would be rather
> inconvenient to have "Synaptics Axes Swap". Probably the touchscreen
> drivers have similar properties. Would it make sense to have them named
> identically for every kind of pointer devices, irrespectively of the
> driver?
 
Have a look at 21129, it has my comment on why synaptics doesn't have this
yet.  http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21129