[Wayland-bugs] [Bug 99200] Elantech touchpad with libinput has wrong number of buttons

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99200

Luke <lukebenes at hotmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #7 from Luke <lukebenes at hotmail.com> ---
(In reply to Peter Hutterer from comment #6)
> this is an Asus X555LA right? if so, the photos [1] indicate this is a
> clickpad without any physical buttons. So my assumption is that you have
> software buttons enabled by default as outlined here:
> https://wayland.freedesktop.org/libinput/doc/latest/clickpad_softbuttons.html
> 
> That gives you a middle button (in the middle of the touchpad), if you don't
> want it you can enable middle button emulation instead or switch to
> clickfinger instead.
> 
> if the middle button isn't in the middle, then the axis ranges are probably
> wrong, please attach the touchpad-edge-detector tool's output to fix that.
> 
> Otherwise, afaict this works as intended, sorry.
> 
> 
> [1] https://www.asus.com/au/Notebooks/X555LA/

If this is by design, then it's a terrible design decision and one more reason
to keep synaptics. Take a look at the photo. The trackpad is offcenter, so when
you move your right hand down, your thumb is right over the middle of the
trackpad. This mean's that 1/2 the right clicks are registered as middle clicks
leading to all kinds of annoying behavior. 


It may be possible to fake a 20 buttons, but the physical has a divider with 2
button slots(It's clearly in the photo you linked to). If you're going to add
extra buttons that aren't there, these should NOT be enabled by default,
especially on models like this one that have buttons physically labeled.

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