Re: [Tails-dev] inclusion of xinput in the main build of Tai…

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Author: alienpup
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To: intrigeri
CC: The Tails public development discussion list
Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] inclusion of xinput in the main build of Tails
intrigeri wrote:
> Hi,
>
> HumMy:
> > i need this software in the main build because i have a laptop with
> > accupoint that keeps the mouse moving all the time making touchpad
> > impossible to use.
>
> Could you please point me to what this "accupoint" thing is?
> A DuckDuckGo search yields many results that seem unrelated.
>
> > via persistence options, you can have it installed, but not
> > available at login time and so you can't really use the dotfiles
> > feature to script your way through because the program won't be
> > installed when the scripts are run.
>
> One way to solve this is to have your post-login script wait for
> tails-additional-software-install.service to have started. Once this
> is done, the Additional Software are installed.


intrigeri,

This provides some info. See the "Naming and brands" table for affected laptops: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accupoint

regards,
alienpup