Confirmed with a 4,2 Macbook Air.  Thankfully I have a trackball in hand
most of the time, but this is definitely the biggest drawback I've
encountered so far since switching from OS X a couple of days ago.

FWIW, xf86-input-mtrack has recently added two options that sound
promising:

* IgnoreThumb - Whether or not to ignore touches that are determined to be 
thumbs. Boolean value. Defaults to false.
* BottomEdge - The size of an area at the bottom of the trackpad where new 
touches are ignored (fingers traveling into this area from above will still be 
tracked). This is represented as a percentage of the total trackpad height. 
Defaults to 10.

I don't have the heart at the moment to attempt to swap out the
synaptics driver for xf86-input-mtrack (the .deb I found looks like it
depends upon an experimental xorg input abi); hopefully a fix for this
comes along before I get desperate enough to try...

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  Missing support for thumb resting on bottom of clickpad

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