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itz_Archer

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From: Lebanon

Registered: 2016-07-08

Posts: 8

[SOLVED][Xfce] Touchpad cursor moves as if I am using a touchscreen

Greetings,

I installed Xorg and Xfce as instructed in the wiki and everything works fine except the touchpad (Elantech).

The problem is that when I move the cursor using the touchpad, the cursor always starts moving from the center of the screen, regardless of its current position, rendering the touchpad useless. It is as if using a tablet/touch screen so that if I tap my finger on a certain location, the mouse jumps directly to that location.

Here is my /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/70-synaptics.conf

Section "InputClass"
    Identifier "touchpad"
    Driver "synaptic"
    MatchIsTouchpad "on"
        Option "TapButton1" "1"
        Option "TapButton2" "3"
        Option "TapButton3" "2"
        Option "VertEdgeScroll" "on"
        Option "VertTwoFingerScroll" "on"
        Option "HorizEdgeScroll" "on"
        Option "HorizTwoFingerScroll" "on"
        Option "CircularScrolling" "on"
        Option "CircScrollTrigger" "2"
        Option "EmulateTwoFingerMinZ" "40"
        Option "EmulateTwoFingerMinW" "8"
        Option "CoastingSpeed" "0"
        Option "FingerLow" "30"
        Option "FingerHigh" "50"
        Option "MaxTapTime" "125"
        Option "VertScrollDelta" "-111"
        Option "HorizScrollDelta" "-111"
EndSection

As an example, touching the upper left corner of the touchpad makes the cursor jump directly to the upper left corner of the screen.

Last edited by itz_Archer (2016-07-08 19:43:19)

itz_Archer

Member

From: Lebanon

Registered: 2016-07-08

Posts: 8

Re: [SOLVED][Xfce] Touchpad cursor moves as if I am using a touchscreen

Problem solved.

I had mistakenly uninstalled xf86-synaptics-input and mistakenly written "synaptic" instead of "synaptics" in the Driver statement in the previous config file!!