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Nice, I recently replaced my mac book pro with a cheap Samsung laptop (emergency replacement, the mac died and the new ones are unobtainable currently). I inst

Nice, I recently replaced my mac book pro with a cheap Samsung laptop (emergency replacement, the mac died and the new ones are unobtainable currently). I installed Manjaro on it and it was a relatively OK experience getting that going. I had some issues with the sound that took some "maybe this will work" style copy paste of all sorts of magical cli incantations to get working. But I kind of knew what I was getting into so I'm not disappointed by that. The important thing is that I have a functioning laptop with all my developer toys running. However, the touchpad support is so awful that I ordered a mouse. I never needed one of those with any macbook I've ever owned. It seems it's impossible to configure the touchpad in a sane way without ending up with piles of custom scripts. E.g. the scrolling speed is way off and I constantly have my single clicks interpreted as middle clicks, which does such fun things as close the browser tab instead of opening it. Simple tasks such as selecting text are made hard because the mechanical pressure needed for the clicks actually tends to move the cursor by enough that you basically mis-click. I briefly used the touchpad under windows before I wiped the disk. So, I know the same touch pad can behave a lot more reasonable given better software. So, any improvements in this area are very welcome!

zekica 5y ago
Cheap laptops have generally crappy touchpads. I have one (on a Lenovo ThinkBook) that has 5 finger multi-touch and it works completely fine with Gnome 40+ gestures. The only thing bothering me is a lack of consistent inertial two-finger scrolling. Never had left clicks misinterpreted as middle clicks.
- jillesvangurp 5y ago
  Two click scrolling kind of works though it's set to some ridiculous speed. If click it slightly sideways with my finger it's interpreted as a two finger click.
depressedpanda 5y ago
It may be that single click in the bottom center of your touch pad is interpreted as middle click. I have a touch pad that does this, but it's a feature to me, so I never looked into how to disable it. If the mechanical pressure necessary to click is too much, that's a hardware issue, so not much you can do there. I worked around it by enabling tap-to-click, which works fine for me, but I tend to keep my palms away from the track pad while typing.

zekica 5y ago

Cheap laptops have generally crappy touchpads. I have one (on a Lenovo ThinkBook) that has 5 finger multi-touch and it works completely fine with Gnome 40+ gestures. The only thing bothering me is a lack of consistent inertial two-finger scrolling. Never had left clicks misinterpreted as middle clicks.

jillesvangurp 5y ago
Two click scrolling kind of works though it's set to some ridiculous speed. If click it slightly sideways with my finger it's interpreted as a two finger click.

depressedpanda 5y ago

It may be that single click in the bottom center of your touch pad is interpreted as middle click. I have a touch pad that does this, but it's a feature to me, so I never looked into how to disable it. If the mechanical pressure necessary to click is too much, that's a hardware issue, so not much you can do there. I worked around it by enabling tap-to-click, which works fine for me, but I tend to keep my palms away from the track pad while typing.