Touchpad, Xorg and Tapping on Buster with libinput.

[Coline]

Hello,

On a laptop with a synaptics touchpad, I can't use libinput properly and got some problems with synaptics when using it (no palm detection even the option enabled, some resumes crash...)

With libinput, everything works fine, except that the configuration file (/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/40-libinput.conf) isn't working. I can add whatever I want in this file, the system seems not using it. By the way, when I use synaptics, the option are working.

For example, in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/40-libinput.conf :
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "libinput touchpad catchall"
MatchIsTouchpad "on"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
Driver "libinput"
Option "Tapping" "on"
EndSection

The Option "Tapping" "on" isn't working (I added it).

But the "Option "TapButton1=1" "1" in the ...70-synaptics.conf is working.

I don't use the two files at the same time, I don't use the two drivers together neither.

I don't understand why I can't configure libinput. By the way, I can make changes with xinput (and libinput) : the changes work...

Thank you for your help ! :)

[LE_746F6D617A7A69]

On a laptop with a synaptics touchpad, I can't use libinput properly and got some problems with synaptics when using it (no palm detection even the option enabled, some resumes crash...)

I've never been able to configure tapping in libinput with synaptics touchpads - strange errors, and sometimes even LightDM crashes.

This is what works:
1. install the synaptic driver package: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
2. open the file /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/70-synaptics.conf and edit the section "touchpad catchall" like this:

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Section "InputClass"
    Identifier "touchpad catchall"
    Driver "synaptics"
    MatchIsTouchpad "on"
    MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
    Option "TapButton1" "1"
    Option "TapButton3" "1"
EndSection

I hope that it will also work for You

In the synaptics driver documetation You can check how those tapping modes work.

[Coline]

I've never been able to configure tapping in libinput with synaptics touchpads - strange errors, and sometimes even LightDM crashes.

Ok ! So, I'm probably not (entirely) the problem.

The problem with the synaptic driver is the palm detection (it doesn't work at all) (and maybe some crashes when waking up from suspend mode)...

[LE_746F6D617A7A69]

The problem with the synaptic driver is the palm detection

According to the driver documentation, palm detection depends on touchpad model. Besides there are some "tunning" options, like f.e. PalmMinZ.

Synaptic driver never crashed on my systems, but f.e. on Debian9 libinput crashed in 100% of cases with tapping enabled ...

[Head_on_a_Stick]

/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/40-libinput.conf

Read the comments at the top of that file and follow the instructions.

Enabling the "Tapping" option works fine for me but you can also use xinput(1) to set the options for the touchpad.

For example:

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xinput set-prop 12 282 1

^ Put that in ~/.xsessionrc (mutatis mutandis).

[eriefisher]

I have been using libinput for some time now and never had an issue. Mine is an Elan though. One thing I do want to mention is, in my bios there is a setting for the touchpad, basic and advanced I believe. With the basic setting I lose some of the functionality like 2-finger scroll so I keep it at advanced. Other than that everything is working as expected, scrolling, tap and off while typing. Maybe you have something similar?

[Coline]

According to the driver documentation, palm detection depends on touchpad model. Besides there are some "tunning" options, like f.e. PalmMinZ

Hi ! I tried a lot of configurations but the PalmDetect never works.

Enabling the "Tapping" option works fine for me but you can also use xinput(1) to set the options for the touchpad.

I think I'm going to do that but I don't understand why my xorg.conf file isn't working.

I have been using libinput for some time now and never had an issue. Mine is an Elan though. One thing I do want to mention is, in my bios there is a setting for the touchpad, basic and advanced I believe. With the basic setting I lose some of the functionality like 2-finger scroll so I keep it at advanced. Other than that everything is working as expected, scrolling, tap and off while typing. Maybe you have something similar?

Thanks for the suggestion ! It's pretty clever ! But I have no options linked to the touchpad in the BIOS settings.


Sometimes, when I resume from suspend, the keyboard isn't working for nearly 15 seconds...