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johnraff

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Beryllium: switch from synaptics to libinput by default?

Laptop touchpad issue:
https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic.php?id=7659

For some time now Debian sources have been recommending switching from xserver-xorg-input-synaptics to xserver-xorg-input-libinput (eg https://wiki.debian.org/SynapticsTouchpad#libinput). It's expected to improve touchpad handling, but means synclient and syndaemon commands won't work.

Does anyone have personal experience of the difference? Any problems with the libinput driver? Any other opinions?

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Re: Beryllium: switch from synaptics to libinput by default?

Not a clue. synaptic is not installed.
I have been using "apt" for a few years now.

EDIT:  Should be noted: Desktop - no touchpad.
- and I see I am totally out of the ballpark here

Something to read: Why I’ve come to dislike libinput (one of the Linux input drivers)

And, with that, I will quietly leave this thread to the "pad" people.

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Re: Beryllium: switch from synaptics to libinput by default?

I switched from synaptics to libinput some time but as you mentioned synclient stopped working. I thought I switched back but as I am writing this I recognise that actually both are installed without interfering. TBH I have no clue which one is used...

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Re: Beryllium: switch from synaptics to libinput by default?

I use libinput on two laptops - ArchLabs and Void installs.

I don't notice any difference, and libinput has its own commands for configuration.. I suspect you can match it up with the current BL defaults for synaptics.

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Re: Beryllium: switch from synaptics to libinput by default?

Are the touchpad handling options within libinput compatible enough with synclient? Not sure if libinput supports temporarily disabling touchpad while typing...gets annoying when I accidently brush the touchpad when typing.

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Re: Beryllium: switch from synaptics to libinput by default?

Does anyone have personal experience of the difference? Any problems with the libinput driver? Any other opinions?

When I installed Archlinux on my 2015 laptop I went with libinput first, and could not make it work fully (2 finger scrolling etc.), deliberately switched to synaptics.

I haven't cared enough to investigate further, but it stands to reason that synaptics can't be wrong for a 6-year old touchpad, on a machine running Xorg.

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Re: Beryllium: switch from synaptics to libinput by default?

I'm still using synaptics on Bullseye, but my hardware is over a decade old. Cinnamon and BunsenLabs desktops.

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Re: Beryllium: switch from synaptics to libinput by default?

Looks like both are installed on "Beryllium" here. Nothing unusual as far as I have noticed.