Two-finger width setting on Dell XPS 15 9650

[Peter Hutterer]

On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 01:46:12AM +0000, Vahe Oughourlian wrote:
> I'm working with a Dell XPS 15 9650 using libinput. Using the Synaptics
> driver, a property is available to set the maximum distance two fingers may
> be apart before a two-finger scroll can be triggered, called "Synaptics
> Two-Finger Width." At the moment, two fingers anywhere on the touchpad will
> switch it over to a two-finger scroll.
> 
> I ran across a post from Peter Hutterer (
> https://who-t.blogspot.de/2016/04/why-libinput-doesnt-have-lot-of-config.html)
> discussing the intention to minimize options in libinput, and there doesn't
> seem to be a setting that affects this behavior that I could find. Given
> that, is the most appropriate thing to file a bug for this particular
> trackpad to have a reasonable default added for this device, or is this a
> setting libinput eventually intends to support? Or is this setting already
> available?

it's not an available configuration, no. But the main question is what
you're actually trying to achive? I'm assuming that any finger distance
limits are not the issue per se but that there's something else that affects
how you can interact.

Cheers,
   Peter