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Is it at all possible to have a simple feature like Palm detection in Ubuntu? I've been struggling with this for a year now. Nothing helps. BIOS update from Dell helped the matter but an Ubuntu update brought the issue back.

Blacklisting i2c_hid in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf does not help. Not blacklisting it does not help either.

Activating the Palm detection option in xinput for DLL0665:01 06CB:76AD UNKNOWN does not work too.

Switching to Libinput does bring palm detection into life but it makes my cursor all jumpy and crazy and any change in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/99-libinput.conf kills my login screen (all I get is a gray screen)

Is there a way to make it work? Why does it work perfect in Windows on my Virtualbox and not on the Linux system (I have to start Windows in Vbox so I could write letters because it's a nightmare to do it in Ubuntu). Is it a known issue with the community and how to make it so if it is? Thanks in advance!

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  • This shows a couple of comments where it seems to work: github.com/advancingu/XPS13Linux/issues/3
    – Rinzwind
    Feb 24, 2016 at 9:41
  • @Rinzwind thanks for the reply! Have read it - patching kernels is still on my list to learn. Found this today thou syndaemon -i 2 -tKRd. It seems to be working but with some glitches like loosing cursor whatsoever even after you finish typing.
    – Reeby
    Feb 24, 2016 at 15:50
  • this is not a good solution, i don't know if palm detection setting is there, why it wouldn't work. just tried in ubuntu 17.10 and it still doesn't work, did you find any solutions
    – vikrant
    Dec 3, 2017 at 7:16

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