[Wayland-bugs] [Bug 94989] touchpad (on X220) less precise when moving in from the edges

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94989

--- Comment #23 from Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net> ---
(In reply to Michael Biebl from comment #22)
> (In reply to Peter Hutterer from comment #21)
> > yep, that's intended. the bottom 10mm are reserved for the buttons (left vs
> > right) and we discard movement when a finger is set down inside that button
> > area. 
> 
> Aha, thanks for the clarification. I guess we are getting to the bottom of
> this.
> I assume the synaptics driver did not do something similar like libinput?

it should have, see synaptics commit 3adaf4623845d. same approach.

> Since I use the (upper) hardware button and tap-to-click, can I disable the
> softbutton?

yep, just change to the clickfinger method. see man libinput for the xorg.conf
option to do so, or gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad
click-method 'fingers'. not sure what other DEs use, sorry

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