From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Hutterer Subject: Re: PROBLEM: [HP Stream Notebook - 11-d010nr] clickpad malfunctions after performing a hardware click Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2014 08:34:48 +1000 Message-ID: <20141208223448.GA8143@jelly.redhat.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from leo.clearchain.com ([199.73.29.74]:50533 "EHLO mail.clearchain.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755352AbaLHW7Y (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Dec 2014 17:59:24 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-input-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-input@vger.kernel.org To: Amordea Whiteoak Cc: Benjamin Tissoires , linux-input , Andrew Duggan On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 02:16:48PM -0500, Amordea Whiteoak wrote: > While I have the ears of the touchpad gods, there is one more tiny > issue I'd like to report. This may be simply a configuration issue, > but I would not know how to fix it. > > The window for double-tapping (tapping the touchpad twice to simulate > a double-click) is remarkably brief. Let me be clear, double-tapping > on the touchpad does work, however if you do not get the second tap > within about a 200ms window after the first, it seems to fail to > register as a double-click, counting it as two unrelated single > clicks--this is an uncomfortably short window of opportunity. A > temporary workaround seems to be triple-tapping which for whatever > reason allow for a broader window (much closer to a full second) and > registers as a double-tap, but that just seems to be a happy accident > and is certainly not an expected feature. Is there any way to broaden > that window? look at option MaxDoubleTapTime, see man synaptics. It's been on 180ms for at least 8 years though, so unless Ubuntu changed the defaults here nothing should've changed recently. there's always the chance of a bug in the xorg driver but do try to figure out if that's a Ubuntu issue first please. Cheers, Peter > > I did not have this problem on my previous laptop with Lubuntu > installed (though it had 14.04 not 14.10--it's no longer operational > after suffering an unfortunate accident so I can't do comparison > testing with it any longer). > > I promise this is my last remaining issue with the touchpad. :)