The mtrack driver does allow finger resting in the bottom area, but I found it to be too rough around the edges in other areas that I couldn't use it. The cursor tracking feels weird and unnatural to me. It would also seem to accelerate when I would approach the bottom of my screen. Also, it seemed like it wasn't possible to segment the bottom area into right & left buttons (ie. every click is a left click). This would likely be an issue with the synaptics driver as well though.
Its sad that all this time has passed without proper support in linux for clickpads to emulate trackpads with physical buttons. Seems like this has never been a problem for Windows and OSX drivers. I ended up just forcing myself to use tap-to-click. I'm getting used to it, but I still don't like it. I erroneously click every once in a while and dragging just plain sucks. I wish I had physical buttons on my trackpad like before :( Don't know if I should hold out any hope of this issue being resolved anytime soon. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-input-synaptics in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1026046 Title: Missing support for thumb resting on bottom of clickpad Status in xf86-input-synaptics: Unknown Status in xserver-xorg-input-synaptics package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in xserver-xorg-input-synaptics source package in Precise: Confirmed Status in xserver-xorg-input-synaptics package in Debian: New Bug description: When using the trackpad on the MacBook Pro In Mac OS X it is possible to have the thumb resting (ready to click) on the bottom part of the touchpad while moving the mouse pointer around with your index or middle finger. Likewise it is also possible to use two finger scrolling with the index and middle finger on the upper part on the track pad while resting the thumb on the lower part of the trackpad. This behaviour is not currently supported with the synaptics driver in 12.04. It wil register a two finger scroll when the thumb is resting in the bottom part and index finger moves around in the upper part. I have tried playing aroud with the setting AreaBottomEdge that disables all motion on the bottom part of the touchpad. Unfortunately when this setting is enabled it still detects a finger in the area, so it wil register a two finger scroll like before. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/xserver-xorg-input-synaptics/+bug/1026046/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
