Re: Adjustment of left/right fields on Trackpad?
Kent West wrote:
> Deb 12, KDE Plasma (usually, but generic answers are good)
>
> Is a trackpad (Plasma calls it a Touchpad) divided left-and right in
> hardware or software?
>
> My Dell Latitude 5520 laptop has a numpad on the right-end of the keyboard
> (what we used to call an extended keyboard, I believe), and the touchpad is
> centered below the typing keys, instead of being centered in relation to
> the entire left-right width of the extended keyboard. That's fine for
> normal typing, but when using the keyboard more laxly (like playing a game
> of Solitaire, or just reading email), my fingers are not over the
> home-keys. (Even now, I'm typing one-handed, with my head resting on my
> other hand). This "shifts" the trackpad too far to the left of the whole
> keyboard for my hand to "naturally" find the sweetspot for left-clicks, and
> very often when I'm pressing what I think should be a left-click, nothing
> happens, and I have to intentionally break my focus on the game or the
> email or whatever, and move my hand a little farther to the left to
> actually get the left-click I intended.
>
> I can't physically move the trackpad to the right (and that might not feel
> "natural" either, when I'm actually doing proper typing), but if the
> left-right halves of the touchpad were configurable, I could expand the
> left-click area a centimeter or three, and I think that'd make my world
> better.
>
> Are there any DEs or Plasma extensions or other tweaks (Gnome-Tweaks?) that
> would do what I'm imagining? Maybe not, but maybe it's soft-coded in a
> compilable piece of Plasma's mouse-driver that I could modify?
There are a ridiculously large number of tweaks available; the
best reading on the subject that I know of is:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Touchpad_Synaptics
Especially look at the xinput section.
-dsr-
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