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#1 2011-01-05 18:54:34

DarioP
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[solved] How to set touchpad edges without synclient monitor

I've read many man pages, wiki articles and forum posts but I've not found answer to this question.

How should I set the Edge Limits of my touchpad (and all the pressure value too) in: /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-synaptics.conf now that SHMConfig has been deprecated and $ synclient -m doesn't work any more?


Tnx to everybody!

Last edited by DarioP (2011-01-18 21:50:10)

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#2 2011-01-12 15:42:30

DarioP
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Re: [solved] How to set touchpad edges without synclient monitor

Really no one knows? The edges are necessary when configuring side scolling, cornering tap and many advanced features!

My laptop is an asus f3sv based... I would be glad if anyone who have a similar machine, would like to post his synaptics config..

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#3 2011-01-12 16:18:00

voidux
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Re: [solved] How to set touchpad edges without synclient monitor

I use 'xinput' to set up edges for my 'AlpsPS/2 ALPS DualPoint TouchPad'.

Find the name of your touchpad:

xinput list

Mine is 'AlpsPS/2 ALPS DualPoint TouchPad', id=11. Then you can set edges:

xinput --set-prop --type=int "AlpsPS/2 ALPS DualPoint TouchPad" "Synaptics Edges" 150 920 150 650

Change '"AlpsPS/2 ALPS DualPoint TouchPad" with your device name and coordinates that you want. You also can see what is set now:

xinput --list-props "AlpsPS/2 ALPS DualPoint TouchPad" |grep Edges

Good luck!

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#4 2011-01-12 18:17:38

Gusar
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Re: [solved] How to set touchpad edges without synclient monitor

Setting values with synclient does work, but monitor mode indeed doesn't. So you'll have to play a guessing game. Check what a value is currently, change it, observe if things are better or worse. Repeat until happy. Then add the values to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-synaptics.conf. For example:

    Option        "RightEdge"        "5200"

Last edited by Gusar (2011-01-12 18:17:53)

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#5 2011-01-12 18:48:52

DarioP
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Re: [solved] How to set touchpad edges without synclient monitor

Gusar wrote:

Repeat until happy.

Brute force way! I'll probably apply in this if no better solution comes out... and probably won't in a short time hmm


For the edges it's still quite easy, but for the pressure it's really hard without the monitor! Just wondering why they have forgotten such an useful features as the monitor!


However tanks to both for the reply!

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#6 2011-01-12 22:47:16

Teoulas
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Registered: 2009-03-21
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Re: [solved] How to set touchpad edges without synclient monitor

Have you tried enabling the "SHMConfig" option? I've recently played with my laptop's touchpad configuration, and synclient -m was working when I added that option to the xorg config files. Keep in mind, that was about 2 weeks ago. I have no idea if they removed the option since then, but it was there when I was playing with it.

Last edited by Teoulas (2011-01-12 22:49:25)

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#7 2011-01-15 15:28:06

DarioP
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Re: [solved] How to set touchpad edges without synclient monitor

I tried it some times ago but it didn't work: monitor kept saying that SHMConfig was inactive.

Your post let me think about it and I've found that my touchpad wasn't right configured as evdev overrode it and X disabled all the advanced feature (the toucpad was working still).

I correct it being helped by this thread: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=104769

And now I have the monitor working!

Thank you very much!

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#8 2011-01-15 20:27:52

Teoulas
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Re: [solved] How to set touchpad edges without synclient monitor

Glad to be of help, even though "indirectly"! Could you mark the topic as [Solved]?

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