Bug 66534

Summary: Clickpad's should ignore thumbs preparing for and engaging in a click
Product: xorg Reporter: Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia <jeremyhu>
Component: Input/synapticsAssignee: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium CC: asb, bugs.freedesktop.org, bugs.freedesktop.org, peter.hutterer
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: Other   
OS: All   
Whiteboard:
i915 platform: i915 features:
Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 66532    

Description Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia 2013-07-03 06:26:50 UTC 
Related to my #66532, but this one is probably the correct solution to my problem.

If I am holding down the button with my thumb to initiate a drag, and I move my finger across the clickpad, a scroll event is generated because of the two touch points.

Similarly, if I am preparing for a click and have my thumb resting on the clickpad, it should not be seen as a second touch.

This can be an option for Clickpads enabled like:
Option "IgnoreThumb" "<bool>"
or
Option "IgnoreThumbArea" "<L> <R> <T> <B>"
Comment 1 Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia 2013-07-03 06:42:50 UTC 
Correction...

It seems that the clicked case is actually ok.  It seems that I was getting scroll events in some cases because of some weird interactions with BottomEdgeArea, but once I use a config without the BottomEdgeArea, the clicked-finger is ignored ... so this is really just about ignoring the thumb that is just resting there in preparation to click.
Comment 2 Peter Hutterer 2013-07-04 07:01:14 UTC 
Marking as dependency, see bug 66532#c3.
Comment 4 Peter Hutterer 2014-03-07 05:51:06 UTC 
Should be fixed with Hans' patches leading up to c431d900f54696f608312ea51b1fa671839f7d42

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