On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 07:48:44AM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 09:36:16AM +1000, Russell Stuart wrote: > > Briefly: synaptics is much better touchpad driver than libinput. > > For me, the opposite is true. After Raphael's mail yesterday, I > switched from the synaptics driver to the xinput one (by removing > xserver-xort-input-synaptics) and since then, I've not had a single > case of moving the mouse or clicking by tapping by accident. When the > opposite change happened a few weeks ago, the accidents started > happening with such frequency that I could barely finish a sentence in > the same window I started it. As a result, I started pulling out my > hair and when I had no hair left on my head, I switched to an external > mouse. The doctors say I should make a complete hair-recovery and my > barber is very happy about that. > > So for me, the "palm detection" that the xinput driver does, is very > much better than what the synaptics driver does. This might be because > the xinput driver is less smart than the synaptics one, but the end > result for me is a massively better user experience. Tapping and > two-finger scrolling work perfectly fine with the xinput driver, too.
(Note, I don't think the drivers do anything wrt palm detection and other things) It's just probably that your config didn't have palm detection enabled with the synaptics driver. `synclient | grep PalmDetect` would tell you. Mike
