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xf86-input-mtrack

Xorg Multitouch Trackpad Driver

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Xorg Multitouch Trackpad Driver

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Observed mentions: 2019-08-30 23:53:16 UTC to 2021-09-17 12:23:51 UTC.

012019-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsAug 20192019-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsAug 20202020-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsSep 2021

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Aug 20192019-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-09-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Sep 20192019-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-10-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 20192019-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-11-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 20192019-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-12-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 20192019-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-02-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 20202020-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-03-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 20202020-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-04-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 20202020-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-05-01 00:00:00 UTC000
May 20202020-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-06-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 20202020-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 20202020-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-08-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 20202020-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-09-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 20202020-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-10-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 20202020-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-11-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 20202020-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-12-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 20202020-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-02-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 20212021-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-03-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 20212021-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-04-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 20212021-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-05-01 00:00:00 UTC000
May 20212021-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-06-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 20212021-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 20212021-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-08-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 20212021-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-09-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 20212021-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-10-01 00:00:00 UTC110

What Hacker News says

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sandreas·Sep 17, 2021Submission

Ask HN: Inertial / Kinetic scrolling with libinput and KDE possible?

Hey HN, does anyone know, how I could enable kinetic scrolling with KDE and libinput, even if it is experimental? Sidenote: I know that synaptics[1] and mtrack[2] kind of support Kinetic scrolling, but I would like to go for libinput, since the others showed some issues with my Trackpad and libinput is more future proof. I'm trying to configure my touchpad with Arch-Linux, libinput and KDE to support kinetic scrolling. For those, who don't know: Kinetic scrolling does not stop scrolling as soon as the fingers leave the touchpad, but slowly fades out the scrolling process.Libinput works fine so far, but with X11, Kinetic Scrolling is not possible[3]. After checking the docs, I found out that it should be possible with Wayland. KDE and Wayland are still not considered as stable[4], but I got it working for testing purposes. Unfortunately, l
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ibinput does not support generic configuration files, but has to be integrated into the Desktop Environment / Compositor, and KDE has no config option to enable Kinetic scrolling. It would be awesome, if someone could point me in the right direction on this. [1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38909 [2] https://github.com/p2rkw/xf86-input-mtrack/issues/3 [3] https://wayland.freedesktop.org/libinput/doc/latest/faqs.html#kinetic-scrolling-do… [4] https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/5/5.21.0/#kwin-and-wayland
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tony·Aug 30, 2019
There may be more avenues left to try with your current hardware, before you make a choice: Check to makes sure you're running a distro with recent enough Xorg/linux kernel (but not so bleeding edge stuff like libinput-gestures isn't supported). Also if you use integrated graphics, life may be easier since you can pick between Wayland and Xorg to find which DM supports inputs best in your case. Xorg drivers: https://github.com/p2rkw/xf86-input-mtrack libinput: https://wayland.freedesktop.org/libinput/doc/latest/index.ht... libinput-gestures: https://github.com/bulletmark/libinput-gestures (example: https://gist.github.com/SkyBehind/d664448838d065428eded7eb6d...) Gnome extension with some gesture edgecases: 3-finger swiping to different windows like macOS: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1253/extended-gesture... Also if you really l
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ike trackpads and want a consistent experience, you can get a logitech t650 / apple magic trackpad and share your configuration for libinput/etc. across machines. Edit: I reread and noticed you're trying to stay away from apple hardware. You could try logitech's trackpad, but apple magic trackpad may be better a la carte. If you did I'd recommend using via USB w/ bluetooth off to avert pairing headaches
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