On 2/22/2014 8:24 PM, John Hupp wrote:
On 2/20/2014 12:07 PM, John Hupp wrote:
On 2/20/2014 3:05 AM, Ali Linx wrote:
On 02/20/2014 05:26 AM, John Hupp wrote:
I just installed Lubuntu Saucy on a Lenovo 3000 laptop and I'm
finding that touchpad double-tap does not seem to work (Synaptics
touchpad).
I've seen a few other complaints on related topics but haven't
found anything that really defines what can be configured on
touchpads and how.
Options?
Hi,
AskUbuntu? Ubuntu Forums?
Try :)
I could have added that one of the posts I saw said that double-tap
worked fine in Ubuntu, but not in Lubuntu.
So it would seem that this list ought to be a good place to bring
this up.
After further playing around, it seemed that double-tap was not
disabled, but required *VERY* fast tapping.
I found synclient, which is installed in Lubuntu Saucy and supposed to
control Synaptics touchpad behavior, with documentation at
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/saucy/man1/synclient.1.html
That documentation indicates that the related config file is at
/etc/X11/xorg.conf, but that doesn't exist on my machine, so at the
moment I don't know what the universal/user configuration locations are.
synclient -l reports MaxDoubleTapTime=180 initially, and it allowed me
to set 'synclient MaxDoubleTapTime=360.' I'm guessing that it could
probably be set as high as 1000.
This seemed to help, but double-tap is still unreliable: sometimes it
seems to require unreasonably forceful tapping.
synclient also reports settings for:
PressureMotionMinZ
PressureMotionMaxZ
PressureMotionMinFactor
PressureMotionMaxFactor
But it is not self-evident to me what behaviors those settings are
supposed to govern and if any of them would set the touchpad to
respond to a lighter touch.
I have not yet found any better documentation, and maybe that would
help me achieve better control. So I'm still open to further help!
I know more now but still don't have a resolution.
Documentation of the settings reported and governed per-session by
synclient are at
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/saucy/man4/synaptics.4.html
FingerLow and FingerHigh are the settings that should govern
sensitivity, if that is my issue.
Default settings are automatically configured by Xorg, but may be
temporarily changed during a session via synclient. Make permanent
changes by editing /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf and
adding Options to the existing InputClass section that has the
Identifier "touchpad catchall." An example with Options for FingerLow
and FingerHigh:
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "touchpad catchall"
Driver "synaptics"
MatchIsTouchpad "on"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
Option "FingerLow" "10"
Option "FingerHigh" "16"
EndSection
This laptop is dual-booting Saucy with Windows Vista, and so far I have
not been able to configure the touchpad so that it double-taps easily
and consistently/reliably the way it does in Windows. (Which is also to
say that I know that the touchpad hardware is OK because it works fine
in Windows.)
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