Need to find a mouse compatible with Linux

[joneall]

I notice in system settings > input devices > touchpad that the synaptics driver is installed or not used. It is installed (xserver-xorg-input-synaptics), so I guess it's just that I don't have a touchpad yet.

Are all touchpads compativle with a synaptics driver?

[joneall]

Looking at your bottom line. What is he advantage of kdesudo over sudo in a konsole screen? That's what I always do.

[DoYouKubuntu]

Do we all realize that we are all necroposting here?

Well, joneall started it! I hadn't even noticed.

[xennex81]

@joneall you can assume that the base functionality of any mouse, trackball and touchpad will work out of the box. (This is a thread from 2013, that's why they're calling it "necro"). I haven't tried any trackpad features so I can't comment on 'gestures' and the like.

[xennex81]

The KDE4 touchpad notifier was a little buggy though. It regularly told me my touchpad had stopped working when that was not the case .

[claydoh]

Looking at your bottom line. What is he advantage of kdesudo over sudo in a konsole screen? That's what I always do.

kdesudo is for gui programs , not for console-specific ones.

Using sudo, a program is run with root's privileges, but with the user's configurations.
Using kdesudo (or gksu/gksudo in Ubuntu), it uses root's configurations, and also copies
.Xauthority to a tmp directory. This prevents files in your home directory becoming
owned by root.

Running something graphical with sudo is not a guarantee that a config file will change ownership, but makes the likelihood much greater, especially if one changes a setting for that app.