Thanks for these hints. I will consider reducing the default threshold for deceleration. The current default is a compromise that is several years old, it might well be that is not ideal for the average touchpad of today.
On 10/14/20 11:24 PM, Brennan Vincent wrote: > People who prefer flatter profiles are not as rare as one might think, cf > similar discussions on Libinput: > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89485 > > I found setting it to 4 gives best results (it was 16 by default) so I > wouldn't want to totally remove it either. > > Feel free to not merge this patch if you don't want it; I will not be > offended. As long as I have things working how I like on my own system :) > > On 10/14/20 5:16 PM, Ulf Brosziewski wrote: >> I'm not convinced that this makes sense. While there are still a lot of >> touchpads around that need deceleration, modern ones tend to be larger and >> more precise, so maybe we want to drop it at some point in the future? >> Given that up to now, nobody else reported a problem with it, I'd prefer >> to leave it in the set of "inofficial" configuration options. >> >> On 10/14/20 9:13 PM, Brennan Vincent wrote: >>> Oops, the subject should be "Expose touchpad _decleration threshold_ in >>> wsconsctl". Not sure why I wrote "sensitivity". >>> >>> On Wed, 14 Oct 2020, Brennan Vincent wrote: >>> >>>> diff --git sbin/wsconsctl/mouse.c sbin/wsconsctl/mouse.c >>>> index e04642dacbc..0f1594e17e0 100644 >>>> --- sbin/wsconsctl/mouse.c >>>> +++ sbin/wsconsctl/mouse.c >>>> @@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ struct field mouse_field_tab[] = { >>>> { "tp.swapsides", &cfg_swapsides, FMT_CFG, FLG_NORDBACK >>>> }, >>>> { "tp.disable", &cfg_disable, FMT_CFG, FLG_NORDBACK }, >>>> { "tp.edges", &cfg_edges, FMT_CFG, FLG_NORDBACK }, >>>> + { "tp.deceleration", &cfg_decel, FMT_CFG, FLG_NORDBACK }, >>>> { "tp.param", &cfg_param, FMT_CFG, FLG_WRONLY }, >>>> /* Add an alias. This field is valid for all wsmouse devices. */ >>>> { "param", &cfg_param, FMT_CFG, FLG_WRONLY }, >>>> diff --git sbin/wsconsctl/mousecfg.c sbin/wsconsctl/mousecfg.c >>>> index 6d52bcbfc9c..6162df5c229 100644 >>>> --- sbin/wsconsctl/mousecfg.c >>>> +++ sbin/wsconsctl/mousecfg.c >>>> @@ -109,6 +109,12 @@ struct wsmouse_parameters cfg_revscroll = { >>>> 1 >>>> }; >>>> +struct wsmouse_parameters cfg_decel = { >>>> + (struct wsmouse_param[]) { >>>> + { WSMOUSECFG_DECELERATION, 0 }, }, >>>> + 1 >>>> +}; >>>> + >>>> struct wsmouse_parameters cfg_param = { >>>> (struct wsmouse_param[]) { >>>> { -1, 0 }, >>>> diff --git sbin/wsconsctl/mousecfg.h sbin/wsconsctl/mousecfg.h >>>> index 8e99139d280..97ef153fcb3 100644 >>>> --- sbin/wsconsctl/mousecfg.h >>>> +++ sbin/wsconsctl/mousecfg.h >>>> @@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ extern struct wsmouse_parameters cfg_edges; >>>> extern struct wsmouse_parameters cfg_swapsides; >>>> extern struct wsmouse_parameters cfg_disable; >>>> extern struct wsmouse_parameters cfg_revscroll; >>>> +extern struct wsmouse_parameters cfg_decel; >>>> extern struct wsmouse_parameters cfg_param; >>>> extern int cfg_touchpad; >>>> >
