Deb 12, KDE Plasma (usually, but generic answers are good) Is a trackpad (Plasma calls it a Touchpad) divided left-and right in hardware or software?
My Dell Latitude 5520 laptop has a numpad on the right-end of the keyboard (what we used to call an extended keyboard, I believe), and the touchpad is centered below the typing keys, instead of being centered in relation to the entire left-right width of the extended keyboard. That's fine for normal typing, but when using the keyboard more laxly (like playing a game of Solitaire, or just reading email), my fingers are not over the home-keys. (Even now, I'm typing one-handed, with my head resting on my other hand). This "shifts" the trackpad too far to the left of the whole keyboard for my hand to "naturally" find the sweetspot for left-clicks, and very often when I'm pressing what I think should be a left-click, nothing happens, and I have to intentionally break my focus on the game or the email or whatever, and move my hand a little farther to the left to actually get the left-click I intended. I can't physically move the trackpad to the right (and that might not feel "natural" either, when I'm actually doing proper typing), but if the left-right halves of the touchpad were configurable, I could expand the left-click area a centimeter or three, and I think that'd make my world better. Are there any DEs or Plasma extensions or other tweaks (Gnome-Tweaks?) that would do what I'm imagining? Maybe not, but maybe it's soft-coded in a compilable piece of Plasma's mouse-driver that I could modify? Thanks! -- Kent West <")))>< IT Support / Client Support Abilene Christian University Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspot.com
