xf86-input-mtrack: The Other Multitouch Trackpad Driver

[unagimiyagi]

[QUOTE=[COLOR=Red]BlueDragonX;10889524]I've not been able to reproduce either of these issues. How are you holding your fingers? I need to know how much pressure (roughly) you're putting on the pad, how close your fingers are together, and at what angle you're touching.[/COLOR]

Upscrolling definitely seems a bit harder for me. The stock driver in 11.04 did not have such issues. But boy, changing my xorg.conf file to post #30's settings really improved things alot.

Resting the thumb along the bottom edge of the trackpad and moving the cursor with your index finger no longer confuses the trackpad. But regarding upscrolling, i use my right hand. My thumb is resting on the bottom edge of the trackpad (so a thumb touch should be registered), and then with my index and middle finger, I scroll up and down. So while scrolling up and down, I've got 3 fingers touching the trackpad. For upscrolling, my index and middle finger are 1 cm apart, and the middle fingertip is above the index finger's fingertip. Not directly above, but above and to the right a bit. I scroll up with "\" motion (starting from the bottom of the aforementioned slash, and moving say from the 5 o'clock to the 10 o'clock position. I tend to use light pressure when scrolling.

But interestingly, upscrolling in an almost purely vertical motion doesn't seem to improve things. But all in all, the settings do make a difference.



I also added an IgnorePalm "True" to the xorg.conf file.

Section "InputClass" MatchIsTouchpad "on"
Identifier "Touchpads"
Driver "mtrack"
Option "TapButton1" "0"
Option "TapButton2" "0"
Option "TapButton3" "0"
Option "ThumbSize" "26"
Option "Sensitivity" "0.85"
Option "ScrollDistance" "175"
Option "FingerHigh" "10"
Option "FingerLow" "10"
EndSection

[ehuds]

Can't reach the server to download the deb.
Can someone please post a mirror for the natty 64 bit version?

Thanks.

[geofroi]

Can't reach the server to download the deb.
Can someone please post a mirror for the natty 64 bit version?

Thanks.

I have the same problem, impossible to acces to http://www.dev.fatalmachine.org/packages/dispad/ubuntu/ and http://www.dev.fatalmachine.org/pack...mtrack/ubuntu/.
moreover i'm quite a begginer with ubuntu and impossible to deal with the xf86-input-mtrack file I get.

Ubuntu 11.04 on MacBookPro 5,5.

[johnmurrayvi]

Can't reach the server to download the deb.
Can someone please post a mirror for the natty 64 bit version?

Thanks.

Here is the 64 bit ubuntu v0.2 deb.
http://db.tt/Pufpziv

moreover i'm quite a begginer with ubuntu and impossible to deal with the xf86-input-mtrack file I get.

This should install it:

cd <download>/<directory>/
sudo dpkg -i xserver-xorg-input-mtrack_0.2.0_natty_amd64.deb

[geofroi]

Here is the 64 bit ubuntu v0.2 deb.
http://db.tt/Pufpziv




This should install it:

cd <download>/<directory>/
sudo dpkg -i xserver-xorg-input-mtrack_0.2.0_natty_amd64.deb

Thanks a lot,
here is a tip for beginner (others can correct me if Im false):
creating an input class section in xorg means that you have to create a 99-multitouch.conf in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d (as well as the former xf86-input-multitouch driver) with a $ sudo gedit /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/99-multitouch.conf and copy :
Section "InputClass" MatchIsTouchpad "on" Identifier "Touchpads" Driver "mtrack" EndSection

in it. Then you can add options as explain all along this thread...

[muammarelkhatib]

Hi,

I have a Macbook pro 8.1 I have installed the mtrack driver, but I haven't found how I can do for making right click. I am using Debian unstable.

I'd appreciate if somebody could tell me which configuration I have to use in xorg.conf in order of getting right click.

[johnmurrayvi]

Thanks a lot,
here is a tip for beginner (others can correct me if Im false):
creating an input class section in xorg means that you have to create a 99-multitouch.conf in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d (as well as the former xf86-input-multitouch driver) with a $ sudo gedit /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/99-multitouch.conf and copy :
Section "InputClass" MatchIsTouchpad "on" Identifier "Touchpads" Driver "mtrack" EndSection

in it. Then you can add options as explain all along this thread...

I just put the InputClass in /etc/X11/xorg.conf and didn't bother with the xorg.conf.d directory. It's working well for me, plus it might be easier to set up than creating a file in xorg.conf.d.

Here's the relevant part of my xorg.conf

Section "InputClass"
    MatchIsTouchpad "on"
    Identifier      "Touchpads"
    Driver          "mtrack"
    Option          "TrackpadDisable" "0"
    Option          "Sensitivity" "0.77"
    Option          "FingerHigh" "10"
    Option          "FingerLow" "7"
    Option          "IgnorePalm" "true"
    Option          "ThumbRatio" "60"
    Option          "ThumbSize"  "20"
    Option          "ButtonEnable" "true"
    Option          "ButtonIntegrated" "true"
    Option          "ButtonZonesEnable" "false"
    Option          "ClickFinger1" "3"
    Option          "ClickFinger2" "2"
    Option          "ClickFinger3" "0"
    Option          "TapButton1" "1"
    Option          "TapButton2" "3"
    Option          "TapButton3" "2"
    Option          "ClickTime"    "40"
    Option          "SwipeUpButton" "0"
    Option          "SwipeDownButton" "0"
    Option          "Swipe4Distance" "600"
    Option          "Swipe4UpButton" "8"
    Option          "Swipe4DownButton" "9"
    Option          "Swipe4LeftButton" "0"
    Option          "Swipe4RightButton" "0"
    Option          "TapDragWait" "50"
EndSection

Hi,

I have a Macbook pro 8.1 I have installed the mtrack driver, but I haven't found how I can do for making right click. I am using Debian unstable.

I'd appreciate if somebody could tell me which configuration I have to use in xorg.conf in order of getting right click.

Did you want to 'click' the trackpad, i.e. press the button, or 'tap' the trackpad?
And are you wanting to use two fingers to trigger the right click?

[geofroi]

I just put the InputClass in /etc/X11/xorg.conf and didn't bother with the xorg.conf.d directory. It's working well for me, plus it might be easier to set up than creating a file in xorg.conf.d.

Thanks for the information, I will try when my settngs will be fixed, it is quite confortable to modify like that, and I can turn back easily to the former driver in case of pb.

here is mine :

Section "InputClass"
MatchIsTouchpad "on"
Identifier "Touchpads"
Driver "mtrack"
Option "IgnorePalm" "True"
Option "IgnoreThumb" "True"
Option "TapButton1" "0"
Option "TapButton2" "0"
Option "TapButton3" "0"
Option "ThumbSize" "26"
Option "ThumbRatio" "60"
Option "PalmSize""55"
Option "ScrollDistance" "150"
Option "Swipe4Distance" "600"
Option "Swipe4UpButton" "8"
Option "Swipe4DownButton" "9"
Option "TapDragEnable" "False"
Option "FingerHigh" "10"
Option "FingerLow" "10"
EndSection

I have still some pb with the "thumb down" using of the touchpad. I 'm used move the pointer with my left hand fingers, and to click with my right one... sometime it mix up finger and thumb. It was more comfortable with xf86-input-multitouch.

other thing, impossible to use the 4 fingers swipe (up or down) to expose all the windows (as configured with compiz...)

[tobyk100]

Hey All,
I am have some noob problems, thank you for being patient and helpful.

I call:

git clone https://github.com/BlueDragonX/xf86-input-mtrack.git

Receiving objects: 100% (550/550), 106.14 KiB | 111 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (329/329), done.

Then:

sudo apt-get install xorg-dev libmtdev-dev

libmtdev-dev is already the newest version.
xorg-dev is already the newest version.

Then:

pwd && ls && make

/home/tobyk100/Drivers/xf86-input-mtrack
config.h.in   COPYING  debian  include      README.md  tools
configure.ac  CREDITS  driver  Makefile.am  src
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.

make -f Makefile.am

make: Nothing to be done for `INSTALL'.

I guess I'm having trouble making the package?
Thank you in advance.

EDIT:I got the multitouch driver working, so I'll go with that for now. Thanks.

[geofroi]

Ok, so, here I am:

Section "InputClass"
    MatchIsTouchpad "on"
    Identifier      "Touchpads"
    Driver          "mtrack"
Option "IgnorePalm" "false"
Option "IgnoreThumb" "false"
Option "ButtonIntegrated" "true" #allow the click and drag with two fingers, one for the click the other to move
Option "ButtonEnable" "true" #if false no way to click with a buttton
Option "TapButton1" "0"
Option "TapButton2" "0"
Option "TapButton3" "0"
Option "ScrollDistance" "150" #defaut 150
Option "Swipe4Distance" "600" #defaut 700
Option "Swipe4UpButton" "8"
Option "Swipe4DownButton" "9"
Option "Swipe4RightButton" "10"
Option "Swipe4LeftButton" "11"
Option "TapDragEnable" "False"
Option "FingerHigh" "10" #defaut 5
Option "FingerLow"  "10" #defaut 5
EndSection

I add comments on my xorg.conf, it makes my mind clearer.

I remind that I use ubuntu 11.04 on a MacBookPro 5,5.

I discover the option ButtonIntegrated which fit quite well with my use. But, when I click, as I explain before was used on mac to have to finger on the touchpad and use an other to click. here it doesn't work very well, making ramdomly right left or middle click. Actually you can use one of your fingers to navigate, and when you want to do a right click, you can let this finger on the touch pad but two other will have to execute a click. In my case I use a left hand finger to move the pointer which stay on the touchpad, when I want to left-click I use a finger of my right hand and press on the button, when I want to right-click I have to, touch the touchpad with another of my left finger and click with one of my right finger at the same time. The same principle for the middle click but with 3 fingers. I hope I was clear. I guess that is for my particular way to use it, but it may help people.

I still have problem with the 4 finger swap to have and expose, I have the current xorg.conf and in compiz, scale mode, I have button9 in showing all the windows (I use ubuntu in french so I'am not sure of the names).

EDIT: I got it, you have to tick the the button_binding_toggle (second box in the top), because you cannot keep swaping!