Re: issues with touchpad after update

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Thu, Dec 06, 2018 at 07:52:52AM +1030, Brett Lymn wrote:
> I think Martin said he was going to look at this - again, I only have a
> clickpad on my laptop so it is hard to test.

Yes.

> > I think it is just a software feature, maybe not even convenient - I am 
> > not accustomed to it because e.g. ThinkPads do not have it.
> > 
> 
> It could be a software feature - if it is then we can do the same sort
> of thing I did for emulating 3 buttons on a clickpad (by default that
> only reports a left click which is why I started hacking on the driver
> in the first place...)

It is (or so I think). It just reserves the rightmost n "pixel"
(where n should be a sysctl) for the scroll area and translates any
slides there into scroll events.

The windows driver also offers a horizontal scroll area at the bottom,
but those is not marked on the hardware and probably not of much use.
The vertical scroll area is optically/harptically marked on my
notebook.

Martin