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kourosh

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From: England

Registered: 2009-03-10

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Inaccurate Touchpad (Dell XPS L421X)

On my Dell XPS laptop I have one of the "ClickPad" types of touchpads, my problem is that it does not function nearly as accurately as it does in Windows. I have enabled "ClickPad" in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-synaptics.conf, and also set up a right mouse button:

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "touchpad catchall"
        Driver "synaptics"
        MatchIsTouchpad "on"
        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
        Option "TapButton1" "1"
        Option "TapButton2" "2"
        Option "TapButton3" "1"
	Option "ClickPad" "true"
	Option "EmulateMidButtonTime" "0"
	Option "SoftButtonAreas" "50% 0 70% 0 0 0 0 0"
EndSection

Still, when right clicking often the first item in the right-click menu is automatically clicked. This generally means I open a lot of new tabs in Chrome, when right clicking on links...

Also the touchpad is a little too sensitive, often tapping will move the mouse pointer, meaning I sometimes have to keep refocusing the mouse pointer when clicking small things.

I have looked through the configuration options, but can't seem to find anything that immediately seems like it would help, anyone have and ideas, or is the Synaptics driver just limited in this way?

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