Kent West wrote: > 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?
There are a ridiculously large number of tweaks available; the best reading on the subject that I know of is: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Touchpad_Synaptics Especially look at the xinput section. -dsr-
