Weird mouse behaviour
Malcolm Matalka
mmatalka at gmail.com
Mon Apr 27 10:56:01 UTC 2020
Niclas Zeising <zeising+freebsd at daemonic.se> writes:
> On 2020-04-27 10:14, Malcolm Matalka wrote:
>>
>>
>> Niclas Zeising <zeising+freebsd at daemonic.se> writes:
>>
>>> On 2020-04-27 08:03, Malcolm Matalka wrote:
>>>> I saw that there was another thread on this and I wanted to throw my
>>>> experience in: my mouse was sluggish and tap-to-click did not work. I
>>>> set the evdev mask back to 3 and it worked.
>>>>
>>>> I am on a Dell XPS 13.
>>>
>>> Hi!
>>> Is this on CURRENT? When using X?
>>> Can you verify that you have xf86-input-libinput installed?
>>> You can change sensitivity and enable tap to click using xinput.
>>> Regards
>>
>> Yes this is current, and I'm on commit 360355. Yes I do have it
>> installed. And yes I am on X.
>>
>> The situation I was in this morning after installing the new kernel was
>> things that previously worked no longer worked so I did the shortest
>> path I could find to get them working, which was modifying this evdev.
>>
>> Is there a document on how one is supposed to configure their system in
>> X? I have never used xinput, instead I have configured my trackpad
>> through sysctl. I'm happy to do it the way that is considered correct
>> but I've sort of pieced together how to get my system setup.
>>
>
> First off, do you have any local xorg conf? That's generally not needed any
> more.
No I don't. I just did a bunch of sysctls to configure the mouse (it
was very sensitive to touch such that if my palm grazed the trackpad it
became a click).
> For xinput, I suggest start with the manual.
> Regards
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