Still having fun setting up laptop with Ubunut. Everything works great apart from the touchpad. I've had a little play and disabled the touch click, however the pad is very sensitive to touch. I don't mind that so much, it's the fact the touch sensitive pad extends over the right and left buttons.
Does anybody know how to edit the touchpad so I can reduce the area that is registered as touch sensitive?
Or put another way I want to stop the touchpad from extending over the buttons?
I read that you could use Synaptics properties, specifically BottomEdge. But that is not found when I try to run it with the xinput command. Says I need to define it.
Thank you for any assistance.
Here are my settings:
Device 'SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad':
Device Enabled (139): 1
Coordinate Transformation Matrix (141): 1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 1.000000
Device Accel Profile (271): 1
Device Accel Constant Deceleration (272): 2.500000
Device Accel Adaptive Deceleration (273): 1.000000
Device Accel Velocity Scaling (274): 12.500000
Synaptics Edges (296): 1554, 5390, 1376, 4478
Synaptics Finger (297): 25, 30, 0
Synaptics Tap Time (298): 180
Synaptics Tap Move (299): 252
Synaptics Tap Durations (300): 180, 180, 100
Synaptics ClickPad (301): 1
Synaptics Middle Button Timeout (302): 0
Synaptics Two-Finger Pressure (303): 282
Synaptics Two-Finger Width (304): 7
Synaptics Scrolling Distance (305): 114, 114
Synaptics Edge Scrolling (306): 0, 0, 0
Synaptics Two-Finger Scrolling (307): 1, 1
Synaptics Move Speed (308): 1.000000, 1.750000, 0.034874, 0.000000
Synaptics Off (309): 2
Synaptics Locked Drags (310): 0
Synaptics Locked Drags Timeout (311): 5000
Synaptics Tap Action (312): 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0
Synaptics Click Action (313): 1, 3, 0
Synaptics Circular Scrolling (314): 0
Synaptics Circular Scrolling Distance (315): 0.100000
Synaptics Circular Scrolling Trigger (316): 0
Synaptics Circular Pad (317): 0
Synaptics Palm Detection (318): 0
Synaptics Palm Dimensions (319): 10, 200
Synaptics Coasting Speed (320): 20.000000, 50.000000
Synaptics Pressure Motion (321): 30, 160
Synaptics Pressure Motion Factor (322): 1.000000, 1.000000
Synaptics Resolution Detect (323): 1
Synaptics Grab Event Device (324): 0
Synaptics Gestures (325): 1
Synaptics Capabilities (326): 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1
Synaptics Pad Resolution (327): 62, 51
Synaptics Area (328): 0, 0, 0, 0
Synaptics Soft Button Areas (329): 3472, 0, 4080, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0
Synaptics Noise Cancellation (330): 8, 8
Device Product ID (258): 2, 7
Device Node (259): "/dev/input/event4"
I've continued to research the problem and found a information at: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Touchpad_Synaptics
This had the useful command:
synclient -l | grep BottomEdge
BottomEdge = 4478
AreaBottomEdge = 0
However setting the values seems to have no effect on my touchpad. Although it does correlate to the values I seen with xinput in the Edges line.
I've tried relatively large values with no effect.
synclient BottomEdge=400000
Any ideas?