[PATCH xf86-input-synaptics] Turn down the default sensitivity for MacBook touchpads

Chase Douglas chase.douglas at canonical.com
Tue Jun 5 09:46:40 PDT 2012


The touchpads are too sensitive by default. A touch is activated when a
finger hovers a millimeter off the device. This change turns down the
default sensitivity so that accidental touchpad interactions are
lessened and pointer interaction accuracy is increased.

Signed-off-by: Chase Douglas <chase.douglas at canonical.com>
---
 conf/50-synaptics.conf |   10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/conf/50-synaptics.conf b/conf/50-synaptics.conf
index 9e86a7a..5b357ea 100644
--- a/conf/50-synaptics.conf
+++ b/conf/50-synaptics.conf
@@ -42,3 +42,13 @@ Section "InputClass"
         MatchDriver "synaptics"
         Option "SoftButtonAreas" "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0"
 EndSection
+
+# The trackpads in Apple MacBooks are very sensitive. This input class rule
+# turns down the default sensitivity.
+Section "InputClass"
+	Identifier "MacBook touchpad sensitivity"
+	MatchProduct "bcm5974"
+	MatchDriver "synaptics"
+	Option "FingerLow" "70"
+	Option "FingerHigh" "75"
+EndSection
-- 
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