Can you disable only part of a touchpad? I'm using a Lenovo Yoga13, and the touchpad extends down into the click area. So, every time I click, it moves the mouse a little bit. It's pretty annoying.
Is there a calibration tool or something? I just need to disable the bottom inch of my touchpad.
Best Answer
From the synaptics driver man page:
And that's exactly what we want, right? Therefore, we are going to have to come up with a value for
AreaBottomEdge
, get the other three usingxinput
, and write a customxorg.conf
.First of all, we need to find some information about our touchpad. In a terminal, run
xinput list
. For me, the output looks like this:My touchpad is identified as
ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad
. Now we need to find out some information for creating thexorg.conf
later. Let's figure out what values the driver is currently using for the touchpad edges by running:which, for me, outputs:
Save these values for later.
Now, create a new file named
/etc/X11/xorg.conf
if it doesn't already exist, open it using your favorite text editor as root, and put this in it, using the values we found earlier:Remember that, for best results when creating this file, you must use the values that you found yourself. Do not use mine. (I'm not calling you an idiot or anything; I'm just making sure so that you don't screw this up.)
Also, you are going to have to change the value for
AreaBottomEdge
so that it is less than the original and meets your requirements. You are going to have to experiment with this until you are satisfied with the results.Also remember to log out and log back in after saving the file for the changes to take effect.