Ubuntu – Where are settings for drag-and-drop touchpad behavior

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I use "tap to click", so when I'm performing a click-and-drag, I tap-tap-drag. If my finger reaches the edge of the touchpad and I still need to drag the cursor farther, I quickly lift and place my finger closer the center of the pad so I can continue dragging. As long as I replace my finger on the touchpad quickly enough, it doesn't treat the finger-lift as the end of the drag-and-drop action.

This has worked for me on other distros. I had NixOS w/Gnome installed on my current machine before installing Ubuntu Gnome on it, and it worked, but I can't figure out how to make it work on Ubuntu.

Is there some hidden setting I need to configure?

Best Answer

Check the output of synclient -l | grep -i drag. You'll see something like this:

LockedDrags             = 0
LockedDragTimeout       = 5000
TapAndDragGesture       = 1

I think LockedDragTimeout is the setting you want. To change it temporarily, run synclient LockedDragTimeout=value. Once you are happy with the value, add the command to startup applications.

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