Re: ELAN Touchpad double finger tap problem (on Asus ROG laptop)

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On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 11:08:10PM +0300, Mustafa Kuscu wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> My Asus ROG laptop has a touchpad with which I prefer to emulate the
> MacBook trackpad's behavior. The ELAN was giving that feeling
> perfectly (hats off) until recently.
> 
> The issue is, I expect the whole area of the touchpad to be double
> finger tappable, but I can't double finger tap and get a button
> click/release on the "right-button region on the trackpad, i.e., the
> region designated as the right button on the trackpad ". Instead, it
> fires a motion notify event when double-tapped on the right button
> area, debugged with xev.

fwiw, xev is a number of layers removed from the kernel, any of which can
affect it. Tapping isn't something that the kernel handles, it's all in
userspace - libinput or xf86-input-synaptics usually.

I suggest reproducing the issue with libinput debug-events and going
through the list here:
https://wayland.freedesktop.org/libinput/doc/latest/reporting-bugs.html

Cheers,
   Peter

> I thought, that could be hid input module issue but not an X11 or
> display environment issue, because by not touching any other
> component, but just altering the kernel, the problem can be
> reproduced. Namely the 4.14 LTS kernel has no such problem, but the
> 4.17 and 4.18 series do, under the latest GNOME 3.28 display
> environment on the current Arch distribution.
> 
> In order to further investigate it, unfortunately I have brief time to
> test and work on directed quick hacks if anyone suggests but cannot
> dedicate longer time on this unfortunately. Just wanted to tip off
> those who might be having this issue and be having an idea.
> 
> Kind Regards,
> M.K.
> 



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