From dc5474964d4ec73b5c324961026e1037bb344946 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Hutterer Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 14:55:37 +1000 Subject: If the touchpad is in TOUCHPAD_OFF mode, allow physical clicks Enabling clicks in off mode also allows for the new Lenovo *40 series to use the top software buttons while the touchpad is disabled. This benefits those that usually disable touchpads altogether but still need the buttons for the trackstick. This changes existing behaviour, but TouchpadOff was always intended to stop erroneous events while typing. Physical button presses are hard to trigger accidentally. On the touchpads that TouchpadOff concept was originally designed for the buttons are nowhere near the keyboard and are physically separated from the touchpad anyway. On Clickpads, triggering a physical click requires more force than accidentally touching the surface. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76156 Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede --- man/synaptics.man | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'man') diff --git a/man/synaptics.man b/man/synaptics.man index 97f0114..081ce12 100644 --- a/man/synaptics.man +++ b/man/synaptics.man @@ -261,9 +261,14 @@ Valid values are: .TS l l. 0 Touchpad is enabled -1 Touchpad is switched off +1 Touchpad is switched off (physical clicks still work) 2 Only tapping and scrolling is switched off .TE +When the touchpad is switched off, button events caused by a physical +button press are still interpreted. On a ClickPad, this includes +software-emulated middle and right buttons as defined by +the SoftButtonAreas setting. +.TP Property: "Synaptics Off" .TP .BI "Option \*qLockedDrags\*q \*q" boolean \*q -- cgit v1.2.3