Can't treat touchpad with absolute axis under either libinput or evdev

enigmus · 2018-12-31 21:45:11

I have been attempting to do what the title says, but the touch pad refuses to use absolute axis. I have been told this deprecated functionality in libinput as it automatically converts, but even under evdev it refuses to do so. The touchpad is absolute value capable, I checked it under a sudo evtest.

/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/42-evdev.conf:

Section "InputClass"
    Identifier "evdev touchpad"
    MatchIsPointer "on"
    Driver "evdev"
    Option "Mode" "absolute"
EndSection

I have also tested it with MatchIsPointer changed to MatchIsTouchpad. And uninstalled libinput temporarily and enabled evdev.
xf86-input-synaptics drivers are installed.

Any reason this wouldn't work?

enigmus · 2018-12-31 22:20:04

Also touchpad works as mouse with MatchIsPointer and works only for clicking M1 M2 M3(but not at absolute coords) without movement with MatchIsTouchpad.

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#1 2018-12-31 21:45:11

Can't treat touchpad with absolute axis under either libinput or evdev

#2 2018-12-31 22:20:04

Re: Can't treat touchpad with absolute axis under either libinput or evdev

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