Comment 4 for bug 1246215

Before fixing anything permanently, I think it is important to answer the
following questions:
1) What were those values in previous versions of Ubuntu?
2) Why were they changed in the current version?
3) Do current Macbooks work well with such settings?

If current Macbooks work well with such settings, it is necessary to find
out since what Macbook version the mousepad was changed. I believe it could
be since they merged the mouse pad and button together. Based on that, it
is possible to change the values based on the Macbook version as Klein
mentions using versions less than "Macbook x.y".

I am very interested in the answer to question (1) because, despite that my
mouse works well now, I think its operation was better ("smoother") in
previous versions, and I still have sometimes odd right-click behaviour.

Juan Rada-Vilela
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http://www.fuzzylite.com/jcrada

On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 3:43 AM, KLEIN Stéphane <email address hidden>wrote:

> How can we fix this configuration for all Ubuntu user ?
>
> Can we set different value by hardware type based on "dmidecode -s
> system-product-name" ? or other value ?
>
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>
> Title:
> Ubuntu 13.10, wrong settings for Apple (mouse) touchpad in Macbook 4,1
>
> Status in “xserver-xorg-input-synaptics” package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> The default settings for the touchpad of a macbook 4,1 in Ubuntu 13.10
> render an awkward mouse behaviour that is found during and after
> installation. The following issues are found:
>
> 1) Moving the cursor shows an intermittent behaviour because the
> parameters for FingerLow and FingerHigh are way too high, hence
> affecting the sensitivity and requiring more pressure to move the
> mouse.
>
> 2) Having enabled Two-finger tap for right click, using vertical
> scrolling with two fingers often ends up in a right click.
>
> Fixes:
>
> I have permanently fixed the settings by editing the first Section
> block in file "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf"
>
> Section "InputClass"
> Identifier "touchpad catchall"
> Driver "synaptics"
> MatchIsTouchpad "on"
> # This option is recommend on all Linux systems using evdev, but cannot
> be
> # enabled by default. See the following link for details:
> #
> http://who-t.blogspot.com/2010/11/how-to-ignore-configuration-errors.html
> MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
> Option "FingerLow" "30"
> Option "FingerHigh" "40"
> Option "MaxTapMove" "25"
> EndSection
>
> The added parts are:
> Option "FingerLow" "30"
> Option "FingerHigh" "40"
> Option "MaxTapMove" "25"
>
> where FingerLow and FingerHigh fix issue (1), and MaxTapMove fixes
> issue (2).
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