Linux touchpad like a Macbook: goal worth pursuing?

Re:Linux touchpad like a Macbook: goal worth pursuing? by MrLeftHand on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @08:20AM (#17549152)

Can KDE do something about touchpad support whist the underlying X and kernel support for the hardware is absolute rubbish? It was a while ago I used KDE, but from what I can remember there was no option to fine tune touchpad behaviour.

I like that under Linux you have a freedom of choice when it comes to window managers. KDE, Gnome2-3, XFCE, Cinnamon, you name it. It's awesome to have so many tools for one problem.

Hell, I even liked Unity. I think it was a very clean and easy to use wmanager.

But no matter how fancy-ass the wrapping is, if the problem is underneath it.

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Re:Linux touchpad like a Macbook: goal worth pursuing? by jpetso on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @09:14AM (#17549472)

KDE does have to configuration in its system settings, but it obviously only relies on the standard X/kernel drivers and is only a convenience GUI for setting these options.

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Re:Linux touchpad like a Macbook: goal worth pursuing? by haspok on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @09:59AM (#17549765)

As I found it out the hard way, xinput is pretty bare and does not support the settings required to make the touchpad usable on an XPS 9343, for example. The settings for minimum and maximum acceleration are missing (and so these options are greyed out on the KDE GUI). They are defaulted to MIN and MAX respectively.

Solution: install Synaptics, open KDE panel, set both acceleration settings to a low value, enjoy.

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