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johnp

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Registered: 2021-01-09

Posts: 21

Re: Touchpad pointer speed

Thanks shaunb....I will give it a whirl.,I did notice one thing after fiddling with files is that I lost the tap,double tap,and edge scrolling....mouse movement is still ok and I can still use the trackpad buttons at bottom.....not sure what I did.,should have probably left well enough alone.

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shaunb

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Registered: 2021-01-15

Posts: 8

Re: Touchpad pointer speed

Nah, you're doing OK! It's a learning experience...

There are a lot of places the X11 (the base window system that TDE is using) configuration can be stored and there is a precedence search order:
https://www.x.org/releases/current/doc/ … l#heading2

However, most changes end up in one of the following folders:
1. /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/
2. /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/

Precedence order here is 1 then 2.

Have a look through these two locations. Each may have files with numbered .conf files. The numbers just provide a processing sort order (10 before 20 before etc...) and a method for logical separation of parameters. It's easy to look through these files for anything to do with a pointer or touchpad and work out which settings are active.

As you've discovered, Trinity doesn't seem to offer full touchpad configuration in the GUI, so we're having to handcraft it! I'd suggest keeping this handcrafting to just cover touchpad settings, so that it doesn't interfere with anything you do in the GUI. Hence the configuration I gave 2 posts back that can only affect a (generic) touchpad.

You probably haven't got more than a couple of pointer / touchpad sections in these two file locations, so it shouldn't be difficult to straighten out!

johnp

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Posts: 21

Re: Touchpad pointer speed

It appeared to create a "backup" of the 40-libinput.conf file when i edited the original.?
Also  /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ is empty.,...no files.

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shaunb

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Re: Touchpad pointer speed

It appeared to create a "backup" of the 40-libinput.conf file when i edited the original.?

The default editor (Kate?) must be setup to do that. You can change the behaviour in the program's configuration if you want. You can delete the backup file or leave it. It won't get read because it's not a ".conf" file anymore.

Also  /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ is empty.,...no files.

That makes it easy then!

And did the change work?

johnp

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Registered: 2021-01-09

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Re: Touchpad pointer speed

No effect that I can tell, Would it make a difference of using Option "AccelSpeed" "+1"

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shaunb

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Re: Touchpad pointer speed

What have you got in the "pointer catchall" section of /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/40-libinput.conf?

(Option "AccelSpeed" "+1" is the same as Option "AccelSpeed" "1")

johnp

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Posts: 21

Re: Touchpad pointer speed

{Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "libinput pointer catchall"
        MatchIsPointer "on"
        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
        Driver "libinput"
EndSection}
I had {Option "AccelSpeed" "+1"} in there but since it didnt do anything I removed it.
Should I re-install it?

shaunb

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Registered: 2021-01-15

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Re: Touchpad pointer speed

No, your configuration is correct. Not sure why it doesn't work...
Oh well, we tried!

johnp

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Re: Touchpad pointer speed

Thanks shaunb for the help!