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Slightly off-topic, but is anyone here using Wayland with a touchpad? The last time I tried libinput, the behavior was horrendous compared to a synaptics. 2 f

by ht85 7y ago

Slightly off-topic, but is anyone here using Wayland with a touchpad? The last time I tried libinput, the behavior was horrendous compared to a synaptics. 2 finger scrolling had a ~2mm threshold before it activated and wouldn't compensate for the lost distance once the scroll started, making it feel very unnatural. I couldn't find an option to enable true palm detection either. There was an option to disable the touchpad for a fixed time every time the keyboard was used, which is abysmal compared to how it works normally (ignoring taps and drags if they start too close to an edge). It's hard to believe that this is the current state of things, but I did search for a way to set it up with no success. Is there a way to get those to work?

ZeroCool2u 7y ago
I've been using Ubuntu with Gnome on Wayland for the past year or so on my Dell XPS 13. I actually ended up switching to Wayland, because of how much better the touchpad worked with it. To be fair though, Dell has an entire team dedicated to supporting the XPS 13 Developer Edition, so the drivers are highly curated compared to most devices.
- ht85 7y ago
  My experience was on an XPS 9570, not sure if there's a large gap in driver / support. Out of the box synaptics was pretty bad, but after tuning the palm detection zone size and a couple timings (long press, etc) it feels amazing. When I don't have to test convoluted UIs, I can go days without plugging the mouse. Don't you have the small "lag" when two fingers scrolling?
  - ZeroCool2u 7y ago
    I've been super happy with the touch pads performance out of the box, I literally haven't modified any settings related to it. Are you referring to this bug[1] in Chromium? I think these are growing pains associated with transitioning to Wayland, but this really doesn't bother me too much. I will say that the scrolling is otherwise very smooth and almost perfectly everywhere else in the UX. [1]https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=712737 https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=712737

by ht85 7y ago

ZeroCool2u 7y ago

I've been using Ubuntu with Gnome on Wayland for the past year or so on my Dell XPS 13. I actually ended up switching to Wayland, because of how much better the touchpad worked with it. To be fair though, Dell has an entire team dedicated to supporting the XPS 13 Developer Edition, so the drivers are highly curated compared to most devices.

ht85 7y ago
My experience was on an XPS 9570, not sure if there's a large gap in driver / support. Out of the box synaptics was pretty bad, but after tuning the palm detection zone size and a couple timings (long press, etc) it feels amazing. When I don't have to test convoluted UIs, I can go days without plugging the mouse. Don't you have the small "lag" when two fingers scrolling?
- ZeroCool2u 7y ago
  I've been super happy with the touch pads performance out of the box, I literally haven't modified any settings related to it. Are you referring to this bug[1] in Chromium? I think these are growing pains associated with transitioning to Wayland, but this really doesn't bother me too much. I will say that the scrolling is otherwise very smooth and almost perfectly everywhere else in the UX. [1]https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=712737 https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=712737