Dear Marc,

You might have already tried these of course, but perhaps try setting
the below parameters in /etc/wsconsctl.conf:

> mouse.tp.tapping 

> Contacts on the touchpad that are immediately released again can be
> mapped to mouse button clicks. This list of three parameters
> configures these mappings, in the order:
> one-finger,two-finger,three-finger 
> Setting a parameter to a positive value enables that tap gesture and
> maps it to the given mouse button. To disable all three tap gestures
> at once, provide the single value of 0. Conversely, a single non-zero
> value will enable one-finger, two-finger, and three-finger tap
> gestures with their default mappings of left button, right button,
> and middle button, respectively. If, within a short time interval, a
> second touch follows a tap gesture mapped to a left-button click, the
> button-up event is not issued until that touch ends (“tap-and-drag”).

> mouse.tp.mtbuttons

> This feature is supported for some clickpads. If enabled, two-finger
> clicks - with the fingers side by side - generate left-button events,
> and three-finger clicks generate middle-button events.

Similarly, can you see a difference in the output of `wsconsctl` on the
two machines?

Yours

requiem.

On Sat, 15 Mar 2025 11:49:48 +0100
Marc Lasch <mla...@mailbox.org> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm running OpenBSD 7.6 (updated from 7.5) on a Thinkpad x1 gen5.
> Click and drag does not work properly with the wsmouse and (legacy?)
> synaptics driver.
> 
> `xinput test x` does not show any moving events pressing down the 
> touchpad with one finger and using a second finger to move the cursor
> to drag (e.g. to mark a text). Moving only the first pressed down
> finger creates events, but this I find a very unnatural movement. Two
> finger scrolling works.
> 
> The click and drag works on a different Thinkpad t490s with the same 
> OpenBSD system, and also with Linux on the x1. From looking around in 
> different forums, it looks like the issue is also present on other 
> Thinkpads of the same generation.
> 
> I tried various settings, but none worked so far, does anybody has an 
> idea how to get this work or how I debug this further?
> 
> Cheers, Marc
> 

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