Synaptic: right click + move

[Peter Hutterer]

On Wed, Dec 03, 2014 at 12:46:41AM +0000, Carles Pina i Estany wrote:
> 
> 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)

I recommend you set the SecondarySoftButtonAreas option instead. That should
remove the need for AreaTopEdge.

Cheers,
   Peter