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Very user friendly.

Very user friendly.

Posted Jun 11, 2025 13:27 UTC (Wed) by quotemstr (subscriber, #45331)
In reply to: Very user friendly. by LtWorf
Parent article: Ubuntu 25.10 to drop support for GNOME on Xorg

> Meanwhile my 4 year old thinkpad's touchpad is not yet decently supported by libinput (no 2 finger scrolling) and it doesn't seem like upstream cares.

libinput adopts a Gnome-like anti-customization policy, sadly. I miss pointer acceleration curve configuration and all the knobs that the old synaptics clickpad driver provided. With libinput, it's as if they know the one right way to mouse, and if you disagree, you're wrong. It's a loss.

It's also a loss that Wayland compositors don't seem to have a decent way of providing input-device-specific XKB layouts like I can do in X11. That means that if I want to remap keys, I need to do it hackily by intercepting evdev events and having the window system use a virtual device. XKB was much cleaner.


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Very user friendly.

Posted Jun 11, 2025 14:51 UTC (Wed) by zdzichu (subscriber, #17118) [Link] (1 responses)

Very user friendly.

Posted Jun 11, 2025 15:07 UTC (Wed) by quotemstr (subscriber, #45331) [Link]

Oh, cool. I'll take a look. Thanks!

One thing I wanted to do, also, and that I could do via the Synaptics driver, is define custom mouse avoidance areas. For whatever reason, I keep causing stray mouse events when I accidentally touch the wrong spot on the edge of the trackpad, and I was able to just make those spots insensitive in X11.


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