SYNAPTICS
Section: Devices and Network Interfaces (4)
Updated: xf86-input-synaptics 1.9.1
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NAME
synaptics - touchpad input driver
SYNOPSIS
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "devname"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "Device" "devpath"
Option "Path" "path"
...
EndSection
DESCRIPTION
synaptics
is an Xorg input driver for touchpads.
Even though touchpads can be handled by the normal evdev or mouse drivers,
this driver allows more advanced features of the
touchpad to become available. Some benefits would be:
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Movement with adjustable, non-linear acceleration and speed.
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Button events through short touching of the touchpad.
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Double-Button events through double short touching of the touchpad.
- •
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Dragging through short touching and holding down the finger on the
touchpad (tap-and-drag gesture).
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Middle and right button events on the upper and lower corner of the
touchpad.
- •
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Vertical scrolling (button four and five events) through moving the
finger on the right side of the touchpad.
- •
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The up/down button sends button four/five events.
- •
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Horizontal scrolling (button six and seven events) through moving the
finger on the lower side of the touchpad.
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The multi-buttons send button four/five events for vertical scrolling
and button six/seven events for horizontal scrolling.
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Adjustable finger detection.
- •
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Multifinger taps: two finger for right button and three finger for
middle button events.
(Needs hardware support.
Not all models implement this feature.)
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Pressure-dependent motion speed.
Note that depending on the touchpad firmware, some of these features
might be available even without using the synaptics driver. Note also
that some functions are not available on all touchpad models, because
they need support from the touchpad hardware/firmware. (Multifinger
taps for example.)
The name "synaptics" is historical and the driver still provides the
synaptics protocol parsing code. Under Linux however, the hardware-specifics
are handled by the kernel and this driver will work for any touchpad that
has a working kernel driver. If your device is recognized as "PS/2
Mouse" or similar, the kernel driver does not support your device and this
driver will only provide limited functionality.
CONFIGURATION OPTIONS
Please refer to
xorg.conf(5) for general configuration
details and for options that can be used with all input drivers. This
section only covers configuration details specific to this driver.
The following driver
Options
are supported:
- Option "Device" "string"
-
This option specifies the device file in your "/dev" directory which will
be used to access the physical device. Normally you should use something like
"/dev/input/eventX", where X is some integer.
- Option "Protocol" "string"
-
Specifies which kernel driver will be used by this driver. This is the list of
supported drivers and their default use scenarios.
| auto-dev | automatic, default (recommend)
|
| event | Linux 2.6 kernel events
|
| psaux | raw device access (Linux 2.4)
|
| psm | FreeBSD psm driver
|
- Option "LeftEdge" "integer"
-
X coordinate for left edge. Property: "Synaptics Edges"
- Option "RightEdge" "integer"
-
X coordinate for right edge. Property: "Synaptics Edges"
- Option "TopEdge" "integer"
-
Y coordinate for top edge. Property: "Synaptics Edges"
- Option "BottomEdge" "integer"
-
Y coordinate for bottom edge. Property: "Synaptics Edges"
- Option "FingerLow" "integer"
-
When finger pressure drops below this value, the driver counts it as a
release. Property: "Synaptics Finger"
- Option "FingerHigh" "integer"
-
When finger pressure goes above this value, the driver counts it as a
touch. Property: "Synaptics Finger"
- Option "MaxTapTime" "integer"
-
Maximum time (in milliseconds) for detecting a tap. Property: "Synaptics Tap
Durations"
- Option "MaxTapMove" "integer"
-
Maximum movement of the finger for detecting a tap. Property: "Synaptics Tap
Move"
- Option "MaxDoubleTapTime" "integer"
-
Maximum time (in milliseconds) for detecting a double tap. Property:
"Synaptics Tap Durations"
- Option "ClickTime" "integer"
-
The duration of the mouse click generated by tapping. Property: "Synaptics Tap
Durations"
- Option "ClickPad" "boolean"
-
Whether the device is a click pad. See
ClickPad support
for more details. Property: "Synaptics ClickPad"
- Option "VertEdgeScroll" "boolean"
-
Enable vertical scrolling when dragging along the right edge. Property:
"Synaptics Edge Scrolling"
- Option "HorizEdgeScroll" "boolean"
-
Enable horizontal scrolling when dragging along the bottom edge. Property:
"Synaptics Edge Scrolling"
- Option "CornerCoasting" "boolean"
-
Enable edge scrolling to continue while the finger stays in an edge corner.
Property: "Synaptics Edge Scrolling"
- Option "VertTwoFingerScroll" "boolean"
-
Enable vertical scrolling when dragging with two fingers anywhere on
the touchpad. Property: "Synaptics Two-Finger Scrolling"
- Option "HorizTwoFingerScroll" "boolean"
-
Enable horizontal scrolling when dragging with two fingers anywhere on
the touchpad. Property: "Synaptics Two-Finger Scrolling"
- Option "VertScrollDelta" "integer"
-
Move distance of the finger for a scroll event. Property: "Synaptics Scrolling
Distance"
- Option "HorizScrollDelta" "integer"
-
Move distance of the finger for a scroll event. Property: "Synaptics Scrolling
Distance"
- Option "MinSpeed" "float"
-
Minimum speed factor. Property: "Synaptics Move Speed"
- Option "MaxSpeed" "float"
-
Maximum speed factor. Property: "Synaptics Move Speed"
- Option "AccelFactor" "float"
-
Acceleration factor for normal pointer movements. Property: "Synaptics Move
Speed"
- Option "PressureMotionMinZ" "integer"
-
Finger pressure at which minimum pressure motion factor is applied. Property:
"Synaptics Pressure Motion"
- Option "PressureMotionMaxZ" "integer"
-
Finger pressure at which maximum pressure motion factor is applied. Property:
"Synaptics Pressure Motion"
- Option "PressureMotionMinFactor" "integer"
-
Lowest setting for pressure motion factor. Property: "Synaptics Pressure
Motion Factor"
- Option "PressureMotionMaxFactor" "integer"
-
Greatest setting for pressure motion factor. Property: "Synaptics Pressure
Motion Factor"
- Option "HorizHysteresis" "integer"
-
The minimum horizontal HW distance required to generate motion events. Can be
specified as a percentage. Increase if noise motion is a problem for you. Zero
is disabled.
Default: 0.5 percent of the diagonal or (in case of evdev) the appropriate
"fuzz" as advertised by the device.
- Option "VertHysteresis" "integer"
-
The minimum vertical HW distance required to generate motion events. See
HorizHysteresis.
- Option "UpDownScrolling" "boolean"
-
If on, the up/down buttons generate button 4/5 events.
If off, the up button generates a double click and the down button
generates a button 2 event. This option is only available for touchpads with
physical scroll buttons.
Property: "Synaptics Button Scrolling"
- Option "LeftRightScrolling" "boolean"
-
If on, the left/right buttons generate button 6/7 events.
If off, the left/right buttons both generate button 2 events.
This option is only available for touchpads with physical scroll buttons.
Property: "Synaptics Button Scrolling"
- Option "UpDownScrollRepeat" "boolean"
-
If on, and the up/down buttons are used for scrolling
(UpDownScrolling), these buttons will send auto-repeating 4/5 events,
with the delay between repeats determined by ScrollButtonRepeat.
This option is only available for touchpads with physical scroll buttons.
Property: "Synaptics Button Scrolling Repeat"
- Option "LeftRightScrollRepeat" "boolean"
-
If on, and the left/right buttons are used for scrolling
(LeftRightScrolling), these buttons will send auto-repeating 6/7 events,
with the delay between repeats determined by ScrollButtonRepeat.
This option is only available for touchpads with physical scroll buttons.
Property: "Synaptics Button Scrolling Repeat"
- Option "ScrollButtonRepeat" "integer"
-
The number of milliseconds between repeats of button events 4-7 from the
up/down/left/right scroll buttons.
This option is only available for touchpads with physical scroll buttons.
Property: "Synaptics Button Scrolling Time"
- Option "EmulateMidButtonTime" "integer"
-
Maximum time (in milliseconds) for middle button emulation. Property:
"Synaptics Middle Button Timeout"
- Option "EmulateTwoFingerMinZ" "integer"
-
For touchpads not capable of detecting multiple fingers but are capable
of detecting finger pressure and width, this sets the
Z pressure threshold. When both Z pressure and W width thresholds
are crossed, a two finger press will be emulated. This defaults
to a value that disables emulation on touchpads with real two-finger detection
and defaults to a value that enables emulation on remaining touchpads that
support pressure and width support.
Property: "Synaptics Two-Finger Pressure"
- Option "EmulateTwoFingerMinW" "integer"
-
For touchpads not capable of detecting multiple fingers but are
capable of detecting finger width and pressure, this sets the
W width threshold. When both W width and Z pressure thresholds
are crossed, a two finger press will be emulated. This feature works best
with (PalmDetect) off. Property: "Synaptics Two-Finger Width"
- Option "TouchpadOff" "integer"
-
Switch off the touchpad.
Valid values are:
| 0 | Touchpad is enabled
|
| 1 | Touchpad is switched off (physical clicks still work)
|
| 2 | Only tapping and scrolling is switched off
|
When the touchpad is switched off, button events caused by a physical
button press are still interpreted. On a ClickPad, this includes
software-emulated middle and right buttons as defined by
the SoftButtonAreas setting.
- Property: "Synaptics Off"
-
- Option "LockedDrags" "boolean"
-
If off, a tap-and-drag gesture ends when you release the finger.
If on, the gesture is active until you tap a second time, or until
LockedDragTimeout expires. Property: "Synaptics Locked Drags"
- Option "LockedDragTimeout" "integer"
-
This parameter specifies how long it takes (in milliseconds) for the
LockedDrags mode to be automatically turned off after the finger is
released from the touchpad. Property: "Synaptics Locked Drags Timeout"
- Option "RTCornerButton" "integer"
-
Which mouse button is reported on a right top corner tap.
Set to 0 to disable. Property: "Synaptics Tap Action"
- Option "RBCornerButton" "integer"
-
Which mouse button is reported on a right bottom corner tap.
Set to 0 to disable. Property: "Synaptics Tap Action"
- Option "LTCornerButton" "integer"
-
Which mouse button is reported on a left top corner tap.
Set to 0 to disable. Property: "Synaptics Tap Action"
- Option "LBCornerButton" "integer"
-
Which mouse button is reported on a left bottom corner tap.
Set to 0 to disable. Property: "Synaptics Tap Action"
- Option "TapButton1" "integer"
-
Which mouse button is reported on a non-corner one-finger tap.
Set to 0 to disable. Property: "Synaptics Tap Action"
- Option "TapButton2" "integer"
-
Which mouse button is reported on a non-corner two-finger tap.
Set to 0 to disable. Property: "Synaptics Tap Action"
- Option "TapButton3" "integer"
-
Which mouse button is reported on a non-corner three-finger tap.
Set to 0 to disable. Property: "Synaptics Tap Action"
- Option "ClickFinger1" "integer"
-
Which mouse button is reported when left-clicking with one finger.
Set to 0 to disable. Property: "Synaptics Click Action"
- Option "ClickFinger2" "integer"
-
Which mouse button is reported when left-clicking with two fingers.
Set to 0 to disable. Property: "Synaptics Click Action"
- Option "ClickFinger3" "integer"
-
Which mouse button is reported when left-clicking with three fingers.
Set to 0 to disable. Property: "Synaptics Click Action"
- Option "CircularScrolling" "boolean"
-
If on, circular scrolling is used. Property: "Synaptics Circular Scrolling"
- Option "CircScrollDelta" "float"
-
Move angle (radians) of finger to generate a scroll event. Property: "Synaptics
Circular Scrolling Distance"
- Option "CircScrollTrigger" "integer"
-
Trigger region on the touchpad to start circular scrolling
| 0 | All Edges
|
| 1 | Top Edge
|
| 2 | Top Right Corner
|
| 3 | Right Edge
|
| 4 | Bottom Right Corner
|
| 5 | Bottom Edge
|
| 6 | Bottom Left Corner
|
| 7 | Left Edge
|
| 8 | Top Left Corner
|
Property: "Synaptics Circular Scrolling Trigger"
- Option "CircularPad" "boolean"
-
Instead of being a rectangle, the edge is the ellipse enclosed by the
Left/Right/Top/BottomEdge parameters.
For circular touchpads. Property: "Synaptics Circular Pad"
- Option "PalmDetect" "boolean"
-
If palm detection should be enabled.
Note that this also requires hardware/firmware support from the
touchpad. Property: "Synaptics Palm Detection"
- Option "PalmMinWidth" "integer"
-
Minimum finger width at which touch is considered a palm. Property: "Synaptics
Palm Dimensions"
- Option "PalmMinZ" "integer"
-
Minimum finger pressure at which touch is considered a palm. Property:
"Synaptics Palm Dimensions"
- Option "CoastingSpeed" "float"
-
Your finger needs to produce this many scrolls per second in order to start
coasting. The default is 20 which should prevent you from starting coasting
unintentionally.
0 disables coasting. Property: "Synaptics Coasting Speed"
- Option "CoastingFriction" "float"
-
Number of scrolls/second² to decrease the coasting speed. Default
is 50.
Property: "Synaptics Coasting Speed"
- Option "SingleTapTimeout" "integer"
-
Timeout after a tap to recognize it as a single tap. Property: "Synaptics Tap
Durations"
- Option "GrabEventDevice" "boolean"
-
If GrabEventDevice is true, the driver will grab the event device for
exclusive use when using the linux 2.6 event protocol.
When using other protocols, this option has no effect.
Grabbing the event device means that no other user space or kernel
space program sees the touchpad events.
This is desirable if the X config file includes /dev/input/mice as an
input device, but is undesirable if you want to monitor the device
from user space.
When changing this parameter with the synclient program, the change
will not take effect until the synaptics driver is disabled and
reenabled.
This can be achieved by switching to a text console and then switching
back to X.
- Option "TapAndDragGesture" "boolean"
-
Switch on/off the tap-and-drag gesture.
This gesture is an alternative way of dragging.
It is performed by tapping (touching and releasing the finger), then
touching again and moving the finger on the touchpad.
The gesture is enabled by default and can be disabled by setting the
TapAndDragGesture option to false. Property: "Synaptics Gestures"
- Option ®esolutionDetect" "boolean"
-
Allow or prevent the synaptics driver from reporting the size of the
touchpad to the X server. The X server normally uses this information
to scale movements so that touchpad movement corresponds visually to
mouse cursor movements on the screen. However, in some rare cases where
the touchpad height/width ratio is significantly different from the
laptop, it can cause the mouse cursor to skip pixels in the X or Y axis.
This option allows disabling this scaling behavior, which can provide
smoother mouse movement in such cases.
Property: "Synaptics Resolution Detect"
- Option "VertResolution" "integer"
-
Resolution of X coordinates in units/millimeter. The value is used
together with HorizResolution to compensate unequal vertical and
horizontal sensitivity. Setting VertResolution and HorizResolution
equal values means no compensation. Default value is read from
the touchpad or set to 1 if value could not be read.
Property: "Synaptics Pad Resolution"
- Option "HorizResolution" "integer"
-
Resolution of Y coordinates in units/millimeter. The value is used
together with VertResolution to compensate unequal vertical and
horizontal sensitivity. Setting VertResolution and HorizResolution
equal values means no compensation. Default value is read from
the touchpad or set to 1 if value could not be read.
Property: "Synaptics Pad Resolution"
- Option "AreaLeftEdge" "integer"
-
Ignore movements, scrolling and tapping which start left of this edge.
The option is disabled by default and can be enabled by setting the
AreaLeftEdge option to any integer value other than zero. If supported by the
server (version 1.9 and later), the edge may be specified in percent of
the total width of the touchpad. Property: "Synaptics Area"
- Option "AreaRightEdge" "integer"
-
Ignore movements, scrolling and tapping which start right of this edge.
The option is disabled by default and can be enabled by setting the
AreaRightEdge option to any integer value other than zero. If supported by the
server (version 1.9 and later), the edge may be specified in percent of
the total width of the touchpad. Property: "Synaptics Area"
- Option "AreaTopEdge" "integer"
-
Ignore movements, scrolling and tapping which start above this edge.
The option is disabled by default and can be enabled by setting the
AreaTopEdge option to any integer value other than zero. If supported by the
server (version 1.9 and later), the edge may be specified in percent of
the total height of the touchpad. Property: "Synaptics Area"
- Option "AreaBottomEdge" "integer"
-
Ignore movements, scrolling and tapping which start below this edge.
The option is disabled by default and can be enabled by setting the
AreaBottomEdge option to any integer value other than zero. If supported by the
server (version 1.9 and later), the edge may be specified in percent of
the total height of the touchpad. Property: "Synaptics Area"
- Option "SoftButtonAreas" "RBL RBR RBT RBB MBL MBR MBT MBB"
-
This option is only available on ClickPad devices.
Enable soft button click area support on ClickPad devices.
The first four parameters are the left, right, top, bottom edge of the right
button, respectively, the second four parameters are the left, right, top,
bottom edge of the middle button, respectively. Any of the values may be
given as percentage of the touchpad width or height, whichever applies.
If any edge is set to 0 (not 0%), the button is assumed to extend to
infinity in the given direction. Setting all values to 0 (not 0%) disables
soft button areas. Button areas may not overlap, however it is permitted for two
buttons to share an edge value.
Property: "Synaptics Soft Button Areas"
- Option "HasSecondarySoftButtons" "boolean"
-
This option is only available on ClickPad devices.
Enable the secondary software button area support. The exact area must be
set in option "SecondarySoftButtonAreas". See
ClickPad support
for more details.
- Option "SecondarySoftButtonAreas" "RBL RBR RBT RBB MBL MBR MBT MBB"
-
This option is only available on ClickPad devices and only if
Option "HasSecondarySoftButtons"
is enabled.
Define the secondary soft button click areas on ClickPad devices (usually on
top of the device).
For the allowed values for this option, see
Option "SoftButtonAreas".
Primary and secondary soft button areas must not overlap each other. If they do,
the behavior of the driver is undefined.
Property: "Synaptics Secondary Soft Button Areas". This property is only
initialized if
Option "HasSecondarySoftButtons"
is enabled and this option is set in the xorg.conf(5).
CONFIGURATION DETAILS
Area handling
The LeftEdge, RightEdge, TopEdge and BottomEdge parameters are used to
define the edge and corner areas of the touchpad.
The parameters split the touchpad area in 9 pieces, like this:
| LeftEdge | RightEdge | |
|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | |
|
| | | |
| 4 | 5 | 6 | |
| | | |
|
| 7 | 8 | 9 | |
|
| Physical left edge | | Physical right edge | |
Coordinates to the left of LeftEdge are part of the left edge (areas
1, 4 and 7), coordinates to the left of LeftEdge and above TopEdge
(area 1) are part of the upper left corner, etc.
A good way to find appropriate edge parameters is to use evtest(1) on the
device to see the x/y coordinates corresponding to different positions on
the touchpad.
The perceived physical edges may be adjusted with the AreaLeftEdge,
AreaRightEdge, AreaTopEdge, and AreaBottomEdge options. If these values are
set to something other than the physical edges, input that starts in the
space between the area edge and the respective physical edge is ignored.
Note that this reduces the available space on the touchpad to start motions
in.
Tapping
A tap event happens when the finger is touched and released in a time
interval shorter than MaxTapTime, and the touch and release
coordinates are less than MaxTapMove units apart.
A "touch" event happens when the Z value goes above FingerHigh, and an
"untouch" event happens when the Z value goes below FingerLow.
The MaxDoubleTapTime parameter has the same function as the MaxTapTime
parameter, but for the second, third, etc tap in a tap sequence.
If you can't perform double clicks fast enough (for example, xmms
depends on fast double clicks), try reducing this parameter.
If you can't get word selection to work in xterm (ie button down,
button up, button down, move mouse), try increasing this parameter.
The ClickTime parameter controls the delay between the button down and
button up X events generated in response to a tap event.
A too long value can cause undesirable autorepeat in scroll bars and a
too small value means that visual feedback from the gui application
you are interacting with is harder to see.
Acceleration
The MinSpeed, MaxSpeed and AccelFactor parameters control the pointer
motion speed.
The speed value defines the scaling between touchpad coordinates and
screen coordinates.
When moving the finger very slowly, the MinSpeed value is used, when
moving very fast the MaxSpeed value is used.
When moving the finger at moderate speed, you get a pointer motion
speed somewhere between MinSpeed and MaxSpeed.
If you don't want any acceleration, set MinSpeed and MaxSpeed to the
same value.
The MinSpeed, MaxSpeed and AccelFactor parameters don't have any
effect on scrolling speed.
Scrolling speed is determined solely from the VertScrollDelta and
HorizScrollDelta parameters.
To invert the direction of vertical or horizontal scrolling, set
VertScrollDelta or HorizScrollDelta to a negative value.
Acceleration is mostly handled outside the driver, thus the driver will
translate MinSpeed into constant deceleration and adapt MaxSpeed at
startup time. This ensures you can user the other acceleration profiles, albeit
without pressure motion. However the numbers at runtime will likely be different
from any options you may have set.
Pressure motion
When pressure motion is activated, the cursor motion speed depends
on the pressure exerted on the touchpad (the more pressure exerted on
the touchpad, the faster the pointer).
More precisely the speed is first calculated according to MinSpeed,
MaxSpeed and AccelFactor, and then is multiplied by a sensitivity
factor.
The sensitivity factor can be adjusted using the PressureMotion
parameters.
If the pressure is below PressureMotionMinZ, PressureMotionMinFactor
is used, and if the pressure is greater than PressureMotionMaxZ,
PressureMotionMaxFactor is used.
For a pressure value between PressureMotionMinZ and
PressureMotionMaxZ, the factor is increased linearly.
Middle button emulation
Since most synaptics touchpad models don't have a button that
corresponds to the middle button on a mouse, the driver can emulate
middle mouse button events.
If you press both the left and right mouse buttons at almost the same
time (no more than EmulateMidButtonTime milliseconds apart) the driver
generates a middle mouse button event.
Circular scrolling
Circular scrolling acts like a scrolling wheel on the touchpad.
Scrolling is engaged when a drag starts in the given CircScrollTrigger
region, which can be all edges, a particular side, or a particular
corner.
Once scrolling is engaged, moving your finger in clockwise circles
around the center of the touchpad will generate scroll down events and
counter clockwise motion will generate scroll up events.
Lifting your finger will disengage circular scrolling.
Use tight circles near the center of the pad for fast scrolling and
large circles for better control.
When used together with vertical scrolling, hitting the upper or lower
right corner will seamlessly switch over from vertical to circular
scrolling.
Coasting
Coasting is enabled by setting the CoastingSpeed parameter to a
non-zero value.
Coasting comes in two flavors: conventional (finger off) coasting, and
corner (finger on) coasting.
Conventional coasting is enabled when coasting is enabled,
and CornerCoasting is set to false.
When conventional coasting is enabled, horizontal/vertical scrolling
can continue after the finger is released from the lower/right edge of
the touchpad.
The driver computes the scrolling speed corresponding to the finger
speed immediately before the finger leaves the touchpad.
If this scrolling speed is larger than the CoastingSpeed parameter
(measured in scroll events per second), the scrolling will continue
with the same speed in the same direction until the finger touches the
touchpad again.
Corner coasting is enabled when coasting is enabled, and
CornerCoasting is set to true.
When corner coasting is enabled, edge scrolling can continue as long
as the finger stays in a corner.
Coasting begins when the finger enters the corner, and continues until
the finger leaves the corner.
CornerCoasting takes precedence over the seamless switch from edge
scrolling to circular scrolling. That is, if CornerCoasting is
active, scrolling will stop, and circular scrolling will not start,
when the finger leaves the corner.
Noise cancellation
The synaptics has a built-in noise cancellation based on hysteresis. This means
that incoming coordinates actually shift a box of predefined dimensions such
that it covers the incoming coordinate, and only the boxes own center is used
as input. Obviously, the smaller the box the better, but the likelyhood of
noise motion coming through also increases.
ClickPad support
A click pad device has button(s) integrated into the touchpad surface. The
user must press downward on the touchpad in order to generated a button
press. ClickPad support is enabled if the option
ClickPad
is set or the property is set at runtime. On some platforms, this option
will be set automatically if the kernel detects a matching device. On Linux,
the device must have the INPUT_PROP_BUTTONPAD property set.
ClickPads do not support middle mouse button emulation. If enabling ClickPad
support at runime, the user must also set the middle mouse button timeout to
0. If auto-detected, middle mouse button emulation is disabled by the
driver.
ClickPads provide software emulated buttons through
Option "SoftButtonAreas".
These buttons enable areas on the touchpad to perform as right or middle
mouse button. When the user performs a click within a defined soft button
area, a right or middle click is performed.
Some laptops, most notably the Lenovo T440, T540 and x240 series, provide a
pointing stick without physical buttons. On those laptops, the top of the
touchpad acts as software-emulated button area. This area can be enabled
with
Option "HasSecondarySoftButtons"
and configured
with
Option "SecondarySoftButtonAreas".
On some platforms, this option
will be set automatically if the kernel detects a matching device. On Linux,
the device must have the INPUT_PROP_TOPBUTTONPAD property set.
DEVICE PROPERTIES
Synaptics 1.0 and higher support input device properties if the driver is
running on X server 1.6 or higher. The synclient tool
shipped with synaptics version 1.1 uses input device properties by default.
Properties supported:
- Synaptics Edges
-
32 bit, 4 values, left, right, top, bottom.
- Synaptics Finger
-
32 bit, 3 values, low, high, press.
- Synaptics Tap Time
-
32 bit.
- Synaptics Tap Move
-
32 bit.
- Synaptics Tap Durations
-
32 bit, 3 values, single touch timeout, max tapping time for double taps,
duration of a single click.
- Synaptics ClickPad
-
8 bit (Bool).
- Synaptics Middle Button Timeout
-
32 bit.
- Synaptics Two-Finger Pressure
-
32 bit.
- Synaptics Two-Finger Width
-
32 bit.
- Synaptics Scrolling Distance
-
32 bit, 2 values, vert, horiz.
- Synaptics Edge Scrolling
-
8 bit (BOOL), 3 values, vertical, horizontal, corner.
- Synaptics Two-Finger Scrolling
-
8 bit (BOOL), 2 values, vertical, horizontal.
- Synaptics Move Speed
-
FLOAT, 4 values, min, max, accel, <deprecated>
- Synaptics Button Scrolling
-
8 bit (BOOL), 2 values, updown, leftright.
- Synaptics Button Scrolling Repeat
-
8 bit (BOOL), 2 values, updown, leftright.
- Synaptics Button Scrolling Time
-
32 bit.
- Synaptics Off
-
8 bit, valid values (0, 1, 2).
- Synaptics Locked Drags
-
8 bit (BOOL).
- Synaptics Locked Drags Timeout
-
32 bit.
- Synaptics Tap Action
-
8 bit, up to MAX_TAP values (see synaptics.h), 0 disables an element. order:
RT, RB, LT, LB, F1, F2, F3.
- Synaptics Click Action
-
8 bit, up to MAX_CLICK values (see synaptics.h), 0 disables an element.
order: Finger 1, 2, 3.
- Synaptics Circular Scrolling
-
8 bit (BOOL).
- Synaptics Circular Scrolling Distance
-
FLOAT.
- Synaptics Circular Scrolling Trigger
-
8 bit, valid values 0..8 (inclusive) order: any edge, top, top + right,
right, right + bottom, bottom, bottom + left, left, left + top.
- Synaptics Circular Pad
-
8 bit (BOOL).
- Synaptics Palm Detection
-
8 bit (BOOL).
- Synaptics Palm Dimensions
-
32 bit, 2 values, width, z.
- Synaptics Coasting Speed
-
FLOAT, 2 values, speed, friction.
- Synaptics Pressure Motion
-
32 bit, 2 values, min, max.
- Synaptics Pressure Motion Factor
-
FLOAT, 2 values, min, max.
- Synaptics Resolution Detect
-
8 bit (BOOL).
- Synaptics Grab Event Device
-
8 bit (BOOL).
- Synaptics Gestures
-
8 bit (BOOL), 1 value, tap-and-drag.
- Synaptics Area
-
The AreaLeftEdge, AreaRightEdge, AreaTopEdge and AreaBottomEdge parameters are used to
define the edges of the active area of the touchpad. All movements, scrolling and tapping
which take place outside of this area will be ignored. This property is disabled by
default.
32 bit, 4 values, left, right, top, bottom. 0 disables an element.
- Synaptics Soft Button Areas
-
This property is only available on ClickPad devices.
The Right and middle soft button areas are used to support right and middle
click actions on a ClickPad device. Providing 0 for all values of a given button
disables the button area.
32 bit, 8 values, RBL, RBR, RBT, RBB, MBL, MBR, MBT, MBB.
- Synaptics Capabilities
-
This read-only property expresses the physical capability of the touchpad,
most notably whether the touchpad hardware supports multi-finger tapping and
scrolling.
8 bit (BOOL), 7 values (read-only), has left button, has middle button, has
right button, two-finger detection, three-finger detection, pressure detection, and finger/palm width detection.
- Synaptics Pad Resolution
-
32 bit unsigned, 2 values (read-only), vertical, horizontal in units/millimeter.
NOTES
Configuration through
InputClass
sections is recommended in X servers 1.8 and later. See
xorg.conf.d(5) for
more details. An example xorg.conf.d snippet is provided in
${sourcecode}/conf/70-synaptics.conf
Configuration through hal fdi files is recommended in X servers 1.5, 1.6 and
1.7. An example hal policy file is provided in
${sourcecode}/conf/11-x11-synaptics.fdi
If either of
Protocol "auto-dev"
(default) or
Protocol "event"
is used, the driver initializes defaults based on the capabilities reported by
the kernel driver. Acceleration, edges and resolution are based on the dimensions
reported by the kernel. If the kernel reports multi-finger detection, two-finger
vertical scrolling is enabled, horizontal two-finger scrolling is disabled and
edge scrolling is disabled. If no multi-finger capabilities are reported,
edge scrolling is enabled for both horizontal and vertical scrolling.
Tapping is disabled by default for touchpads with one or more physical buttons.
To enable it you need to map tap actions to buttons. See the "TapButton1",
"TapButton2" and "TapButton3" options.
Button mapping for physical buttons is handled in the server.
If the device is switched to left-handed (an in-server mapping of physical
buttons 1, 2, 3 to the logical buttons 3, 2, 1, respectively), both physical
and TapButtons are affected. To counteract this, the TapButtons need to be set
up in reverse order (TapButton1=3, TapButton2=1).
REMOVED OPTIONS
The following options are no longer part of the driver configuration:
- Option "Repeater" "string"
-
- Option "HistorySize" "integer"
-
- Option "SpecialScrollAreaRight" "boolean"
-
- Option "GuestMouseOff" "boolean"
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- Option "SHMConfig" "boolean"
-
- Option "FingerPress" "integer"
-
- Option "TrackstickSpeed" "float"
-
- Option "EdgeMotionMinZ" "integer"
-
- Option "EdgeMotionMaxZ" "integer"
-
- Option "EdgeMotionMinSpeed" "integer"
-
- Option "EdgeMotionMaxSpeed" "integer"
-
- Option "EdgeMotionUseAlways" "boolean"
-
-
AUTHORS
Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com> and many others.
SEE ALSO
Xorg(1), xorg.conf(5), Xserver(1), X(7), synclient(1), syndaemon(1)