Package: xserver-xorg-input-all Version: 1:7.7+15 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer,
I have a laptop with a trackpad that uses edge-scrolling with the synaptics driver, but two-finger scrolling with libinput's default settings. Please add a hint about the possible UI change when the -input-libinput package is installed. Maybe via the NEWS file: > On laptops, the touchpad or trackpad settings may change. By > default, scrolling is supported by two-finger gestures, not by > the edge of the trackpad. > > Settings for libinput are handled by the desktop environment, > not by libinput itself. If your DE doesn't have libinput > support yet, the options can be discovered with > libinput-list-devices and set with xinput. My understanding is that NEWS is only displayed on package upgrade, and not on a new install. Therefore this wishlist request is filed against -input-all instead of -input-libinput. I'm running the MATE DE, which AFAICS doesn't yet have libinput configuration support. With libinput, the part of the trackpad that is used for edge scrolling became unresponsive (any touch that started in the section caused no events in xev), which meant that I spent a while trying to work out why scrolling had stopped working. Thanks, Steve (Please feel free to reuse or edit the text from this email) -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.5.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages: ii xserver-xorg-input-libinput 0.18.0-1 ii libc6 2.22-7 ii libinput10 1.2.4-1 ii xserver-xorg-core [xorg-input-abi-22] 2:1.18.3-1
