RISC OS "laptop"

Very cool, I now have a high def portable RISC OS ARM laptop, everything seems to work:
Lapdock

I have some stuff on RISC OS in spanish too. Outside of english, there’s not a lot of info on it.

Francois

I see you only show a picture of the front. :)

I have the same. It looks great from the front, then you turn it round….

I have used velcro to attach the Pi and a client wifi device.

I use the right ctrl for the menu button, and I made a native screen mode that seems to work OK.

How long does yours run for? Mine seems good for over 3 hours.

I use the right ctrl for the menu button

On the Touch Book, I have Menu via the second touchpad button, and Adjust via the keyboard. I’ve not tried your way round, but figured the other way reflects the mouse arrangement and also (perhaps erroneously) thought I’d be using Menu more than Adjust.

I would prioritize Menu over Adjust.

The problem with that is it changes an external mouse too.

I tried it, it survived ten minutes (I think).

it changes an external mouse too

You’re right. ISTR having a couple of Obey files to enable/disable the changes. It’s a matter of personal preference and I’m regretting wandering off-topic.

The other thing is, if you have good trackpad drivers, you can do things the OS X way.

Tap with one finger, that’s a Select click.

Tap with two fingers, that’s a Menu click.

Add an option to tap with three fingers, that’s an Adjust click.

Jess,

I’ve added a bunch of pictures of the back, the cables etc. Been using the lapdock for a while. Initially, I made my own HDMI cable, but from time to time I’d get the screen to go black, grr. Got some inexpensive adapter from china and that solved that. My typical use of the lapdock is in my mobile office. I have a wall plate with HDMI and a USB extender. The Raspberry Pi is in a little storage compartment, so in that setup I only have the two cables from the lapdock to the wall plate. But since this weekend, I’ve been playing with RISC OS instead of Raspbian, so that is the setup on my blog

I use an external mouse right now which has a scroll wheel and that works as a third button.

Very similar to mine, except I have velcro on the back of the screen, and a wifi adaptor. (Mine is far more ugly.)

Did you have to disconnect the power in the USB data cable? (I put tape over the connection.)

Mine is pretty much off when it is shut. (I think it may discharge slowly, but not done enough investigation yet.)

I notice issues (keyboard and mouse in dock go funny) if I plug the mouse into the dock rather than the Pi. (Apple mouse).

There should be details for mapping a key to be the mouse menu button on this forum somewhere.

The other thing is, if you have good trackpad drivers, you can do things the OS X way.

The problem with the Lapdock is that the pad is a 2-button mouse emulator, and there is not much scope for anything different. Only a single tap is recognised, as a SELECT click. It might be possible to sense both buttons pressed as MENU, but that is not very comfortable to do anyway.

I use a changed 3rdButton-module that make the right STRG to MENU on my Lapdock. If anyone wants to have it, we find a way ;-)

For my RPi Case I have a Keyboard that do this

Tap with one finger, that’s a Select click.
Tap with two fingers, that’s a Menu click.
Add an option to tap with three fingers, that’s an Adjust click.

Does it purely emulate a two-button mouse, or is it just doing that until, say, some Synaptics or Alps drivers put it in the right mode?

I do not understand the question ;-).
The keyboard has a touchpad with two mouse buttons and additional the function “tap with the fingers on the the PAD”. It works with xM, Panda, RPi… plug & play.

It also supports other modes with Android, so the answer is that yes, wth the right driver it could do more. It is multitouch, for example. Tap is a different function than the left click with android, and there is a bottom area trigger of some sort. Not sure if it is just a positional trigger in android or if there is something more involved at work.

Wouldn’t it be nice if there was a lightweight, slim, ARM-based laptop that was really nippy, could run RISC OS 5 natively, and could run firefox with a few clicks if you needed it. Wouldn’t it be cool if the manufacturers were aware of RISC OS and supported development? Maybe I’m daydreaming, or is it hallucinations brought on by excessive cold/flu medication?

;) I pine for this sort of device… A 15" matte screen running Firefox and RISC OS would be amazing. Let’s hope your cold has cleared up for the show where I hope to hear more about RISC OS developments.