[LAU] MIDI control from laptop touchpad?

[Raine M. Ekman]

On Thu, 21 Jan 2010, Raine M. Ekman wrote:
> Is there some piece of software to use the touchpad on a laptop as a MIDI
> controller in Linux? If not, is there a need for one and what features
> would you like to see in it?

> I've been tinkering a bit with the source to Synclient that interfaces
> with the Synaptics touchpad driver in X, and there isn't too much to do
> to get it to output MIDI. So, I'm asking here to avoid reinventing the
> wheel.

Looks like the alternatives mentioned so far aren't really what 
I'm after, I'll try to explain a little: I'm thinking of something 
using the absolute position of the finger on the pad to calculate the 
value transmitted. There might even be some support for using more than 
one finger and the Z-axis (pressure).

Think I'll dive deeper into the suggestions tomorrow.

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