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How is the touchpad? Is it comparable to Mac? How is the highdpi screen on Linux?
by glogla 11y ago
How is the touchpad? Is it comparable to Mac?
How is the highdpi screen on Linux?
- mbrock 11y agoOh yeah, the touchpad is frankly awful compared to my MacBook's. I've almost considered disabling it, because I keep brushing against it with my palm causing wild cursor behavior and accidental button presses. It's difficult for me to control even when I do it intentionally. But I don't use the mouse much anyway (hence ratpoison). The HiDPI screen is pretty good, I talked about it in a sibling comment. Chromium understands the DPI setting and so does Xterm, and honestly I don't use any other programs. I imagine if I used different desktop applications, I'd probably run into some issues like maybe icons being too small or something.
- Aeolos 11y agoI don't if this is available on Ubuntu, but recent versions of libinput are way nicer than the old synaptics touchpad driver.
- mbrock 11y agoInteresting, thanks!
- abrowne 11y agoYes, for 15.10 (and 16.04) install xserver-xorg-input-libinput, then edit the config files: http://askubuntu.com/questions/649103/proper-touchpad-thumb-palm-detection-with-libinput/678122#678122 http://askubuntu.com/questions/649103/proper-touchpad-thumb-...