Thinkpad x250 touchpad sensivity poor on Ubuntu 17.10 (Gnome/Wayland/libinput)
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I upgraded from 17.04 (Unity) to 17.10 (Gnome) and immediately noticed that the touchpad sensitivity is much poorer on my Thinkpad x250. It is much more difficult to align the cursor with small buttons and the two finger scrolling seems to not engage sometimes and doesn't feel as naturally smooth. I have adjusted all of the touchpad settings available in the default settings, gnome-tweak-tools, and dconf-editor to try to improve it but to no avail.
I've learned that the touchpad driver has been switched to libinput as a part of Gnome and Wayland and that it was a synaptics driver in prior versions. I have found some references to using synaptics instead of libinput with Gnome, but no clear instructions of how to do that.
I also have Unity installed and when I switch back to that, and thus the synaptics driver, the touchpad behaves as before.
I've been using the laptop for 2.5 years and was quite used to the good touchpad performance and would like to get that back with Gnome. Any suggestions on how to address this? Either getting libinput to work better or installing synaptics.
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I upgraded from 17.04 (Unity) to 17.10 (Gnome) and immediately noticed that the touchpad sensitivity is much poorer on my Thinkpad x250. It is much more difficult to align the cursor with small buttons and the two finger scrolling seems to not engage sometimes and doesn't feel as naturally smooth. I have adjusted all of the touchpad settings available in the default settings, gnome-tweak-tools, and dconf-editor to try to improve it but to no avail.
I've learned that the touchpad driver has been switched to libinput as a part of Gnome and Wayland and that it was a synaptics driver in prior versions. I have found some references to using synaptics instead of libinput with Gnome, but no clear instructions of how to do that.
I also have Unity installed and when I switch back to that, and thus the synaptics driver, the touchpad behaves as before.
I've been using the laptop for 2.5 years and was quite used to the good touchpad performance and would like to get that back with Gnome. Any suggestions on how to address this? Either getting libinput to work better or installing synaptics.
unity gnome touchpad synaptics
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I upgraded from 17.04 (Unity) to 17.10 (Gnome) and immediately noticed that the touchpad sensitivity is much poorer on my Thinkpad x250. It is much more difficult to align the cursor with small buttons and the two finger scrolling seems to not engage sometimes and doesn't feel as naturally smooth. I have adjusted all of the touchpad settings available in the default settings, gnome-tweak-tools, and dconf-editor to try to improve it but to no avail.
I've learned that the touchpad driver has been switched to libinput as a part of Gnome and Wayland and that it was a synaptics driver in prior versions. I have found some references to using synaptics instead of libinput with Gnome, but no clear instructions of how to do that.
I also have Unity installed and when I switch back to that, and thus the synaptics driver, the touchpad behaves as before.
I've been using the laptop for 2.5 years and was quite used to the good touchpad performance and would like to get that back with Gnome. Any suggestions on how to address this? Either getting libinput to work better or installing synaptics.
unity gnome touchpad synaptics
asked Jan 29 at 15:49
moorepants
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I upgraded from 17.04 (Unity) to 17.10 (Gnome) and immediately noticed that the touchpad sensitivity is much poorer on my Thinkpad x250. It is much more difficult to align the cursor with small buttons and the two finger scrolling seems to not engage sometimes and doesn't feel as naturally smooth. I have adjusted all of the touchpad settings available in the default settings, gnome-tweak-tools, and dconf-editor to try to improve it but to no avail.
I've learned that the touchpad driver has been switched to libinput as a part of Gnome and Wayland and that it was a synaptics driver in prior versions. I have found some references to using synaptics instead of libinput with Gnome, but no clear instructions of how to do that.
I also have Unity installed and when I switch back to that, and thus the synaptics driver, the touchpad behaves as before.
I've been using the laptop for 2.5 years and was quite used to the good touchpad performance and would like to get that back with Gnome. Any suggestions on how to address this? Either getting libinput to work better or installing synaptics.
unity gnome touchpad synaptics
unity gnome touchpad synaptics
asked Jan 29 at 15:49
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