Sunday, December 4, 2016

How to config Trackpoint + Synaptics touchpad only enable clicks on Linux (Ubuntu)



I have Thinkpad T440, which do not ship with the three buttons on the touchpad.




I used to use trackpoint with clicks on those three buttons. While in this T440 case, I want to disable the touchpad " MOVE | tap-to-click | two-finger or three-finger " features, and only config it like a big clickable buttons, with the middle one.



Can anyone tell me how to write it in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/



I have those files:




10-evdev.conf 11-evdev-trackpoint.conf 50-wacom.conf
10-quirks.conf 50-synaptics.conf 51-synaptics-quirks.conf
11-evdev-quirks.conf 50-vmmouse.conf



Thanks in advance.




$xinput list
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ Logitech USB Receiver id=10 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ Logitech USB Receiver id=11 [slave pointer (2)]

⎜ ↳ TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint id=14 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad id=13 [slave pointer (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)]
↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Video Bus id=7 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Sleep Button id=8 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Integrated Camera id=9 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=12 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ ThinkPad Extra Buttons id=15 [slave keyboard (3)]



Well, this is not the direct answer, but a suggestion and examples.
If you run xinput, you will get list of your devices. Then run xinput list-props $id where $id is your touchpad id in the list.



You will have a list of options like this:



$ xinput list-props 13
Device 'SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad':
Device Enabled (135): 1

Coordinate Transformation Matrix (137): 1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 1.000000
Device Accel Profile (268): 1
Device Accel Constant Deceleration (269): 2.500000
Device Accel Adaptive Deceleration (270): 1.000000
Device Accel Velocity Scaling (271): 12.500000
Synaptics Edges (292): 1765, 5371, 1637, 4453
Synaptics Finger (293): 25, 30, 0
Synaptics Tap Time (294): 180
Synaptics Tap Move (295): 234
Synaptics Tap Durations (296): 180, 180, 100

Synaptics ClickPad (297): 1
[...]


You can change all of these on-the-fly with xinput set-prop $id $propId $value where $id is the device id, $propId is property id in brackets and $value is what you want it to be. For example:



xinput set-prop 13 135 0 sets Device Enabled (135) to 0 and this will disable the touchpad.



You will need descriptions of properties and a way to make your changes permanent.
Descriptions can be found in man synaptics, but wait, they are in another cryptic format! Let's see why.




To make changes permanent, you need to create conf file in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d, for example 30-tochpad.conf with contents like these:



    Section "InputClass"  # you can read more in `man xorg`
Identifier "all touchpads" # just a name for this config
MatchIsTouchpad "on" # enables this config for all detected touchpads
Driver "synaptics" # enables synaptics-specific options below

# This will disable the device
#Option "Ignore" "1"


# There are options that are generic for input-devices or mouse-like devices, see `man evdev`:
Option "ButtonMapping" "0 0 0 0 0 0 0" # i disabled all buttons here, for example

# Here go options from `man synaptics`
Option "VertTwoFingerScroll" "1"
Option "HorizTwoFingerScroll" "1"
Option "PalmDetect" "1"
Option "ClickPad" "0"
# ...etc...

EndSection


So, man synaptics describes options for xorg.conf and tells how they correspond to xinput list-props output.



PS. I tried to configure trackpoint on my ThinkPad X220 to have only two-fingers-scroll enabled, without clicks or mouse movement. I failed. Maybe you will manage to do what you want (there was an option to disable everything but clicks, maybe Synaptics Off).



Sources, more examples and unicorns:



https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Config/Input




https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Touchpad_Synaptics


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