<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 2:19 AM, Peter Hutterer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:peter.hutterer@who-t.net" target="_blank">peter.hutterer@who-t.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div>On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 04:06:26PM +0200, Thilo-Alexander Ginkel wrote:<br>
> On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 8:37 AM, Peter Hutterer <<a href="mailto:peter.hutterer@who-t.net" target="_blank">peter.hutterer@who-t.net</a>><br>
> wrote:<br>
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> > try: Option "TouchpadOff" "1"<br>
> > in addition to your software button configuration<br>
> ><br>
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> Unfortunately, this does not result in any changed touchpad behavior.<br>
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</div></div>there's nothing overriding your config in your desktop environment? check<br>
with synclient if the property is still set. Does it show up in your<br>
xorg.log?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>No, disabling the touch feature wasn't the problem, but configuring the virtual buttons not to span the complete clickpad height. I also uninstalled the KDE synaptics integration to make sure none of the settings are inadvertedly overwritten.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">once that's set any motion should be ignored, at which point only the<br>
software buttons take effect. which is what you want, I think.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>It is, but that's also achieved by setting AreaBottomEdge=1.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">if it doesn't work it's likely a bug, any help debugging this would be<br>
appreciated.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>After some further experimentation I came up with a working config. It seems that the clickpad dimensions are reported incorrectly so the percentage-based configuration does not work correctly.</div><div><br></div><div>My Xorg.0.log reports:</div><div><div>[ 14.664] (--) synaptics: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: x-axis range 1472 - 5112 (res 42)</div><div>[ 14.664] (--) synaptics: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: y-axis range 1408 - 3834 (res 42)</div><div><br></div></div><div>But using evtest I empirically determined different dimensions, which are present in my current config:</div><div><br></div><div><div> 1 Section "InputClass"</div><div> 2 Identifier "T440p touchpad w/o cursor movement"</div><div> 3 MatchDriver "synaptics"</div><div> 4 Option "SoftButtonAreas" "3800 0 0 2500 2600 3800 0 2500"</div><div> 5 Option "TouchPadOff" "1"</div><div> 6 Option "AreaBottomEdge" "1"</div><div> 7 </div><div> 8 Option "LeftEdge" "1024"</div><div> 9 Option "RightEdge" "5110"</div><div> 10 Option "TopEdge" "2048"</div><div> 11 Option "BottomEdge" "5000"</div><div> 12 EndSection</div><div></div></div><div><br></div><div>I remember having read something about incorrect dimension reports by the Linux kernel, but I am currently running 3.17-rc2 and would have expected this to be fixed already in that release.</div><div><br></div><div>How can I further help debugging this issue?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Thilo</div></div></div></div>