Just to add my 2c - the Synaptics behaviour on -current has been much much better since these recent changes; I am not too bothered by the multitouch gestures, although two finger scrolling would be nice. These may work, I haven't tried changing any hw.synaptics sysctls yet. The random jumps towards the bottom-left corner have all but disappeared, for example (these happen under Windows 10 also, using the Microsoft precision touchpad driver, not the original Synaptics one).
I am not aware if we have some support for accelleration. It is a bit annoying, it takes 3-4 full drags on the touchpad to cross the screen diagonally. Anyway, I stopped attaching a mouse to my laptop when I boot into NetBSD. On Thu, 6 Dec 2018 at 08:57 Martin Husemann <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 06, 2018 at 07:52:52AM +1030, Brett Lymn wrote: > > I think Martin said he was going to look at this - again, I only have a > > clickpad on my laptop so it is hard to test. > > Yes. > > > > I think it is just a software feature, maybe not even convenient - I > am > > > not accustomed to it because e.g. ThinkPads do not have it. > > > > > > > It could be a software feature - if it is then we can do the same sort > > of thing I did for emulating 3 buttons on a clickpad (by default that > > only reports a left click which is why I started hacking on the driver > > in the first place...) > > It is (or so I think). It just reserves the rightmost n "pixel" > (where n should be a sysctl) for the scroll area and translates any > slides there into scroll events. > > The windows driver also offers a horizontal scroll area at the bottom, > but those is not marked on the hardware and probably not of much use. > The vertical scroll area is optically/harptically marked on my > notebook. > > Martin >
