Unhappy with libinput's touchpad pointer acceleration? What laptop do you have?
Dell inspiron 7559 - but it has more to do with palm rejection (doesnt really reject my palm but instead accepts it as a tap --> mouseclick)47w
System76 Galago UltraPro - I've problems with Cursor Jumps but I couldn't get around the evemu-record thing.
I've also problems with detecting how many fingers should be detected. I should use 4 fingers to detect 3 fingers in the next motion, else it will detect 3 as 2.47w
fwiw, this is really about pointer acceleration. Anything else is just a bug and can usually be fixed easly, right now I need to know what laptops are affected by bad acceleration.
+Matthias Van Gestel could be an axis range issue, +Anass Ahmed that's a common issue, both just need hwdb exceptions -> please file bugs47w
I was referred here from this comment: https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2016/11/01/discrete-graphics-and-fedora-workstation-25/comment-page-1/#comment-6727. I will just copy my comment from there (sry again if this is offtopic):---------------------------------------------------------------
...I’m a Fedora 24 laptop user right now.
So what I wanted to ask is are there any plans to improve the trackpad experience on Fedora (and hopefully every distro in the process) ? It’s not ultra awful as it is, but it’s a long way off a Macbook in my experience.
To make the comparison clear in terms of my experience using both: when I’m using OSX on a Macbook I probably wouldn’t consider using a mouse even if it was available. On Linux (in general) I dread when I have to use the trackpad.
It’s the little things, transitioning from two finder scroll to moving the cursor, palm rejection reliability, scroll experience etc. Choppy scrolling on linux vs smooth scrolling on OSX, also kinetic scrolling not working as well on linux/synaptic driver when enabled. What I mean by working well is not the scrolling itself but how usable it is. For eg. if you enable the kinetic scroll on linux, and scroll a webpage on any webrowser and press CTRL while the kinetic scroll still “decelerates” the page will zoom in/out because the shortcut is activated and this is infuriating for me!---------------------------------------------------------------
In addition what I want to make clear that it's not only the raw-input itself, but as noted the whole experience of using a trackpad on fedora/gnome in my case47w
Macbook 8,2, running Arch Linux. The scroll speed in Gnome Shell is way too fast; it takes a significantly lighter (slower) touch than the defaults in OSX or X w/ the mtrack driver.
There are some issues about the actual cursor handling, as well: acceleration seems too high when moving the cursor, but deceleration is too low when you're trying to 'stop'; likewise, it's not responsive enough to 'light' touches when you're trying to gently move the cursor.
Gesture support is basically brilliant magic with libinput, as far as I can tell.47w
Dell Vostro 5470. Too sensitive. Inadvertedly clicks on its own while I drag my finger on the surface. This also happen with the Synaptics drivers, but it's fixable by setting FingerLow and FingerHigh to higher values (10 and 20 seem to be the best ones for me). Exaggerated acceleration is also an issue. I can move it around ok, but I can't move it a little. It's ultra fast from the get go. On the Synaptics drivers it's ok, same as Windows.43w
Not an input issue (sorry if hijacking), but I would be so happy if someone at least could have an idea where the problem is with a long standing issue with my touchpad. I'm not even sure which component the bug should be reported to. bugzilla.redhat.com - Bug 1321641 – Touchpad toggle button out of sync after suspend/hibernation41w
ThinkPad T440s and ThinkPad Yoga 460. Very small movements feel very wonky and there is a significant lack of accuracy with small movements compared to xorg-x11-drv-synaptics. For example, if I just want my cursor to move a few pixels, I try making a very small movement and the cursor moves about twice as far as I expected it to. The same motion, using xorg-x11-drv-synaptics, is super accurate and I don't even have to consciously think of what I'm doing, the cursor just goes where I want it to. Whereas, with libinput, developing the muscle memory for very accurate small movements seems impossible, as if the speed of small movements is entirely different from all other movements and thus I never quite get used to it.
Other than that, libinput seems to work pretty well for me.40w
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