Summary: please change the filename of the default config file,
or otherwise have this module be preferred to synaptic.
My partner has a new Dell 15-5559 which has a clickpad. With the
default synaptics driver, it isn't possible to mouse with one finger
while resting the other finger on the pseudo-button.
Even setting various Area and Bottom parameters didn't help: the
synaptic driver would ignore the touchon the button for the purposes
of movement, but not for the purposes of deciding whether the touch
was a single or multi-finger touch.
We solved this problem by:
1. installing xserver-xorg-input-mtrack
2. mkdir /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/
cp /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-mtrack.conf
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/60-mtrack.conf
I don't fully understand the X configuration mechanism. In
particular, I don't know whether there is a risk that renaming the
copy in /usr will cause the version in /usr (which won't have local
customisations) to override a user'c customised one in /etc with an a
lower number.
So some care may be needed. Perhaps calling the file 51-mtrack.conf
would suffice.
Ian.
