On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 12:11:21AM +0100, Bastiaan Jacques wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to enable mouse movement on my synaptics touchpad while > touching the part of the touchpad 'masked' by AreaBottomEdge. My > touchpad has 'integrated' mouse buttons, which makes clicking on > something that isn't huge exceedingly difficult. So, I have disabled use > of the region of the touchpad intended for these buttons by setting > > synclient AreaBottomEdge=4000 > > This works, for the most part. The issue is that I like to have one > finger of the left hand touching, but not pressing, the left mouse > button, while a finger on the right hand finger is moving the mouse > pointer. This doesn't work, however: when anything touches the mousepad > on the part masked out by AreaBottomEdge (or anywhere else), the > touchpad stops registering mouse motion. > > A notable exception is that when I click a touchpad button, *and* start > mouse motion at the exact same time. Then I am able to move the mouse > pointer with one hand, while the other is holding the mouse button. This > isn't very useful in itself, but it shows that what I am after is, I > suspect, a software matter. > > Do you know whether there is anything I can do to make this happen? > > If it helps, Xorg.0.log shows the device as: > > synaptics: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: Vendor 0x2 Product 0x7 > > I'm using the following synaptics driver package: > > xorg-x11-drv-synaptics-1.7.4-1.fc20.x86_64
I really recommend trying the current driver from git. We've had a bunch of fixes to improve behaviour for clickpads and you may find that it works better now, even without needing the AreaBottomEdge. Cheers, Peter _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: %(user_address)s
