Synaptic: right click + move

[Carles Pina i Estany]

Hi,

On Dec/03/2014, Peter Hutterer wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 02:25:01PM +0000, Carles Pina i Estany wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I have a Thinkpad T440 with:
> > N: Name="SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"
> > P: Phys=synaptics-pt/serio0/input0
> > 
> > There is something that I'm missing and I don't know if it's physically
> > (hardware limitation) possible. I'd like to Right click and then move
> > the position.
> 
> it's not a HW limitation. the hw doesn't do right clicks at all, we
> emulate it through sofware buttons (that you have configured). on
> synaptics current master at least, this works just fine.

good to hear it

> > With my current configuration this is not possible (this is a copy-paste from
> > some Internet pages and some local changes):
> 
> what version of synaptics do you have?

1.8.1-1 (from Debian Testing, I installed a few days ago)

> > # Custom xorg.conf.d snippet that assigns the touchpad driver
> > # to all touchpads. See xorg.conf.d(5) for more information on
> > # InputClass.
> > # Additional options may be added in the form of
> > #   Option "OptionName" "value"
> > #
> > Section "InputClass"
> >         Identifier "touchpad catchall"
> >         Driver "synaptics"
> >         MatchIsTouchpad "on"
> > # This option is recommend on all Linux systems using evdev, but cannot be
> > # enabled by default. See the following link for details:
> > # http://who-t.blogspot.com/2010/11/how-to-ignore-configuration-errors.html
> >       MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
> > 
> >       # This sets the top area of the touchpad to not track
> >       # movement but can be used for left/middle/right clicks
> >       Option "SoftButtonAreas" "60% 0 0 2400 40% 60% 0 2400"
> >       Option "AreaTopEdge" "2400"
> 
> my guess is that the AreaTopEdge option causes the issue

you are right: I've removed AreaTopEdge and right click + drag works as
expected. But I miss AreaTopEdge - fixed in master and in the next
Synaptics release? (I might train soon, specially if it doesn't find its
way to Debian)

> >       # Helps to reduce mouse cursor "jumpiness"
> >       Option "HorizHysteresis" "15"
> >       Option "VertHysteresis" "15"
> > 
> >       # Settings reported to work well on an X1 Carbon
> >       Option "FingerLow" "40"
> >       Option "FingerHigh" "45"
> >       Option "MinSpeed" "1"
> >       Option "MaxSpeed" "1"
> >       Option "AccelerationProfile" "2"
> >       Option "ConstantDeceleration" "4"
> > 
> >       # Disable edge scrolling, I prefer two-finger scroll instead
> >       Option "VertEdgeScroll" "0"
> > 
> >       Option "TapAndDragGesture" "1"
> > 
> >       # Enable three-finger tap for middle mouse click
> >       Option "TapButton3" "3"
> > 
> >     # Carles
> >       Option "TapButton1" "1"
> >       Option "TapButton2" "2"
> > EndSection
> > 
> > Any advice of how to do it? Can the Thinkpad's synaptic process the right-click
> > and then with another finger move the position?
> > Using a standard mouse is very easy: right click and then move the mouse.
> > I thought that the TapAndDragGesture could be this but I guess that it's
> > not...
> 
> TapAndDrag is explained in the man page, it's not related to right clicks.

my fault, I saw it after sending the mail.

Thanks for your answer!

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