[manjaro-dev] the synaptics touchpad driver

[kendell clark]

hi
If gnome works with libinput, and mate works only when the synaptics
driver is present, then it's most likely a mate issue. Does libinput
have hardware specific code, That is, does it support mice, keyboards,
etc that have settings specific to those models or is it generic in that
it supports everything but only on a basic level?
Thanks
Kendell Clark


Bernhard Landauer wrote:
>
> I don't know about Mate, but in Deepin this seems to be an issue not
> of specific hardware but of the DE itself. Mouse/Touchpad settings in
> the control center there will only work when xf86-input-libinput is
> not installed and xf86-input-synaptics is present.
>
>
> On 04/10/16 10:36, Tomasz Przybył wrote:
>> Synaptics driver xf86-input-synaptics is used by ELAN Touchpad and
>> Synaptics devices.
>>
>> xf86-input-synaptics can be installed alongside xf86-input-libinput.
>>
>> For my ELAN touchpad in Manjaro KDE only xf86-input-synaptics activate
>> properly devices options setup in KDE Systemsettings Touchpad Applet.
>>
>> Regards
>> FadeMind
>>
>> W dniu 04.10.2016 o 09:23, kendell clark pisze:
>>> hi
>>> Could this maybe be added to mhwd somehow, so that if a user has a
>>> synaptics touchpad, either USB or built in to their laptop, mhwd would
>>> remove libinput and install synaptics, or if removing libinput would
>>> break other things, install the synaptics driver, configuring libinput
>>> not to work for that mouse? If this is possible, I don't really
>>> understand how this stuff works. Phil or someone removed the libinput
>>> xorg driver when I added it, so I'm guessing it isn't needed?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Kendell Clark
>>>
>>>
>>> Bernhard Landauer wrote:
>>>> Like I've reported a while ago I know the same problem from Deepin,
>>>> which also still needs synaptics. For those images I always had to
>>>> edit the shared packages locally, removing libinput and adding
>>>> synaptics...
>>>>
>>>> Am 04. Oktober 2016 08:32:42 MESZ, schrieb kendell clark
>>>> <coffeekingms at gmail.com>:
>>>>
>>>>     hi
>>>>     I think this is primarily mate. The user who reported said that without
>>>>     the synaptics driver, he couldn't change settings specific to the
>>>>     synaptics touchpad in mate's mouse settings.
>>>>     Thanks
>>>>     Kendell Clark
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>     Ste74 wrote:
>>>>
>>>>         Hi, both gnome and mate are affette of this? I Ask because
>>>>         gnome drop x86-synaptic since gnome 3.20 Stefano
>>>>
>>>>
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