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Touchpad running out of surface and Back gesture (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/kde@lemmy.kde.social
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My touchpad often runs out of physical surface when, say, I want to drag'n'drop a file. When my finger reaches the side of the touchpad before the mouse pointer gets to where it should be I have to cancel and start again with more momentum. In Windows when this happens and I don't lift my finger the mouse pointer continues to travel slowly in the same direction. In case I missed it, is there a setting in KDE Plasma 6 enabling that behaviour?

Another touchpad feature I am missing is the Back (as in browser Back) functionality I get in Windows when I tap the bottom left corner. Is that possible?

That's on a Lenovo Thinkpad X1 with Debian Trixie and KDE Plasma.

EDIT: I just discovered KDE Plasma 6 has a setting called 'Tap-and-drag lock'. If you lift your finger and quickly reposition you can continue dragging. That's the most intuitive method, and more elegant than Windows.

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[–] 1 point 1 year ago

The settings available in KDE are what you saw, no more no less. The underlying infrastructure however is usually way more powerful than that.

A few laptops ago I had made a pretty nice config for my touchpad enabling way nicer features than I had access to in Windows.

That was using xinput, which I expect won't work because you're probably using Wayland. Looks like the replacement is libinput.

As usual, the Arch wiki looks like the place ti start, no matter the distro:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Libinput

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