Get ThinkPad touchpad to work with finger taps and reverse scrolling

Afterlife1234 · 2024-02-09 13:59:51

Hi everyone. The title says it all. I couldn't find any GUI options to mess with the touchpad.

Sector11 · 2024-02-09 14:53:09

Best I can come up with: synaptweak

I don't thing these are GUI:

 09 Feb 24 @ 11:37:31 ~
   $ ser touchpad
alias ser = aptitude search
p   libukui-touchpadclient-dev                                    - touchpad settings interfaces                                           
p   libukui-touchpadclient0                                       - touchpad settings module                                               
p   ukui-touchpadserver                                           - touchpad settings service process                                      
 
 09 Feb 24 @ 11:37:41 ~
   $ sho libukui-touchpadclient0
alias = aptitude show filename
Package: libukui-touchpadclient0  
Version: 1.0.1-2+b1
State: not installed
Priority: optional
Section: libs
Maintainer: Kylin Team <team+kylin@tracker.debian.org>
Architecture: amd64
Uncompressed Size: 52.2 k
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.37.3), libukui-print0 (= 1.0.1-2+b1), libukui-gsettings0 (= 1.0.1-2+b1), ukui-touchpadserver
         (= 1.0.1-2+b1)
Description: touchpad settings module
 UKUI interface provides the interface for system configuration and related libraries. 
 
 The package contains touchpad settings libraries.
Homepage: https://github.com/ukui/ukui-interface
Tags: role::shared-lib

 
 09 Feb 24 @ 11:38:58 ~
   $

Robi · 2024-02-09 18:29:55

@Afterlife1234

sudo apt install xfce4-settings
xfce4-settings-manager

Last edited by Robi (2024-02-09 18:31:35)

johnraff · 2024-02-10 02:51:02

Check out 'man synaptics', 'man synclient' and 'man syndaemon', then edit the touchpad section in ~/.config/bunsen/autostart

### TOUCHPAD: comment out the next two entries if you don't have one

## Configure touchpad. See 'man synaptics' for more info.
## (Now might be using libinput instead of synaptics.)
synclient VertEdgeScroll=1 HorizEdgeScroll=1 VertTwoFingerScroll=1 TapButton1=1 2>/dev/null
## alternative:
#synclient VertEdgeScroll=0 VertTwoFingerScroll=0 HorizEdgeScroll=0 TapButton1=1 TapButton2=3 TapButton3=2 PalmDetect=1 PalmMinWidth=4 PalmMinZ=100

## Disable touchpad while typing
syndaemon -i .5 -K -t -R -d &

### TOUCHPAD END

Afterlife1234 · 2024-02-10 10:13:27

It somehow fixed itself, or I wasn't tapping hard enough.

I installed xfce4-settings-manager to reverse scroll direction, but the change is not permanent. It'll only work for a couple of minutes.

hhh · 2024-02-10 15:01:55

You can get reverse scrolling by using negative values for VertScrollDelta and HorizScrollDelta (-75 in nobody's example here)...

https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic … 898#p22898

Also note than in bl-autostart, the commented out line enables 2-finger right-click and 3-finger middle tapping, if your touchpad supports it, but disables scrolling. Set those values back from 0 to 1 to enable one or either.

By playing with all these options, you should be able to get the touchpad features you want.

If you install and use xfce4-settings-manager, you need to add the daemon to your autostart...

xfsettingsd &

Be aware that you might get some weirdness from conflicting settings, like lxappearance writing GTK settings in one file and xfce4-settings in another. Keybindings is another one, IIRC doesn't use xbindkeys. The advantage is some of your configs (fonts, appearance, keybindings) are done in the same GUI. Except for Openbox settings, wallpaper settings... At that point you should probably just install the xfce4 package and run its dedicated session, and don't start xfsettingsd when running a bl-session.

Robi · 2024-02-10 17:04:59

hhh wrote:

If you install and use xfce4-settings-manager, you need to add the daemon to your autostart...
xfsettingsd &

xfsettingsd --daemon &

Afterlife1234 · 2024-02-10 17:05:47

The values you refer to are in what file? Is it bl-autostart?

Also how to I add the daemon to autostart?

Thanks!

Robi · 2024-02-10 18:27:48

@Afterlife1234
file:

~/.config/bunsen/autostart

line added after ### TOUCHPAD END (or wherever except for the last line)

xfsettingsd --daemon &

Should you have icon problems in Appearance after relogin:

sudo gtk-update-icon-cache /usr/share/icons/*

EDIT: Yes, --daemon is unnecessary but during tests at first
xfsettingsd & did not work.
I looked into the autostart of Lilidog where xfce4 settings work(s). I must have overlooked something.

Last edited by Robi (2024-02-11 09:39:09)

hhh · 2024-02-10 22:27:15

Robi wrote:

xfsettingsd --daemon &

It's been at least 5 years since I experimented with xfce4-settings in an openbox session, but why is --daemon needed? xfsettingsd is the daemon forked-to-background command. man xfsettingsd only shows a --no-daemon switch, to not fork it to a background process. Not that that's the whole story, just genuinely curious...

https://manpages.debian.org/experimenta … ettingsd.1

Döbbie03 · 2024-02-11 03:16:51

Robi wrote:

@Afterlife1234
file:
~/.config/bunsen/autostart
line added after ### TOUCHPAD END (or wherever except for the last line)
xfsettingsd --daemon &
Should you have icon problems in Appearance after relogin:
sudo gtk-update-icon-cache /usr/share/icons/*
(btw Lilidog includes it out of the box.)

Isn't "xfsettingsd" already a daemon without explicity having to start it as one?

xfsettingsd &

should be sufficient.

Oh, and I just read hhh's post. Ignore me but, I concur with hhh.

hhh · 2024-02-11 03:58:58

Dobbie03 wrote:

Isn't "xfsettingsd" already a daemon without explicity having to start it as one?
xfsettingsd &
should be sufficient.
Oh, and I just read hhh's post. Ignore me but, I concur with hhh.

Great minds drink alike.

Sector11 · 2024-02-11 11:49:16

And I'm here to show the other side of great minds.

Merrick · 2024-03-13 10:34:42

Afterlife1234 wrote:

Hi everyone. The title says it all. I couldn't find any GUI options to mess with the touchpad.

I feel. Have you checked your system settings or installed any third-party touchpad management software? Good luck!

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