#1 2021-12-19 07:54:42

johnraff

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From: Nagoya, Japan

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Keep synaptics/evdev in Beryllium?

For years now people have been saying libinput is the way forward and synaptics+evdev is archaic.

But libinput still seems to have issues, and synaptic still seems to offer more configuration.
Shall we stay with synaptics for Beryllium?

Some discussions:
https://wiki.debian.org/SynapticsTouchp … Stretch.22
https://neosmart.net/blog/2020/multi-to … -on-linux/
https://www.askwoody.com/forums/topic/w … t-drivers/
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/libinput
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Input_de … figuration
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1192638 … ics-driver

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nobody

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Re: Keep synaptics/evdev in Beryllium?

Personally I never got warm with libinput style touchpad steering but that has been a few years back. I'm not qualified to compare the two after all the alleged modernization libinput has received because for ergonomic reasons I'm only using mice now ... if libinput is the default, we could have a case for keeping it at libinput. However, configuration of libinput is much different from synaptics and we might have less experience and knowledge with it, making keeping synaptics preferable. As synaptics is deprecated however I wonder how long Xorg will automatically be able to load synaptics; IIRC it already outputs  a clear deprecated warning on my Arch system with the latest versions of Xorg.

What would be in favour of libinput is a good config GUI (perhaps lifted from xfce)! libinput can be configured without messing with configuration files (?) however it must be seen how true that is when not running under a full desktop environment.

johnraff

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Re: Keep synaptics/evdev in Beryllium?

The line of least resistance at this point might be to carry on using synaptics, at least on Bullseye/Beryllium.

Maybe revisit with Boron?

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Re: Keep synaptics/evdev in Beryllium?

I briefly tried libinput a year ago with poor results on my old hardware. synpatics ain't broke, so don't fix it. It's the way forward, though, so agreed to revisit come Boron/Bookworm.

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