In that case I think we should (for now) ignore the idea of having tap-to-click enabled on the Xenial touchpad. We need to find a way to turn off tap-to-click on the majority of the Xenial touchpad and only enable the clicking on the bottom section of the touchpad. We should also turn off the multitouch recognition on the Xenial touchpad (for now at least...)number77 wrote:FD does not respond to taps anywhere.
Mouse clicks are on the bottom dead area and respond only to one finger.
As far as I can tell:
1) Fatdog is too different to Xenial for it to donate any software or config info.
2) The driver setup in FD and Xenial result in totally different functionality on the touchpads.
3) You like the FD functionality so we should try to duplicate it in Xenial (despite the different driver and config).
I think we should try to make some major changes to your Xenial touchpad behaviour using synclient commands.
Are you ok with that?
First - some testing:
- It is important to know if the behaviour of the touchpad is identical over it's whole surface. In many cases the top right corner has special "rightclick" functions. This is an inbuilt function of some kernel defaults. Please go to an empty desktop, place the mouse pointer in the centre, and try a one-finger click all over the touchpad (paying special attention to the top right corner). The single finger click should create a leftclick everywhere. However - on many clickpads a single finger tap in the region of the top right corner will generate a rightclick instead of a leftclick - and this will result in the puppy menu popping up. Does this happen or not?
- Some threads suggest that your Xenial touchpad will be setup to recognise a "drag/highlight" function. Try this: Open a text document. Press your thumb on the bottom left of the touchpad (normal leftclick area), and use another finger to drag the mouse over some text. Does this work??
See the image below: