HP Envy Touchpad button problems

[Gary Stainburn]

Onwards and upwards. I'm going for a micro USB WIFI adaptor to fix my wireless 
problem so I'm now moving onto my touchpad.

The problem I have is that unlike traditional touch pads the left and right 
mouse buttons on this laptop are part of the touch pad itself. The problem 
I'm experiencing here is that when I press the lower left or lower right 
corner to activate the mouse buttons the mouse pointer also moves.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

One option for the left button is a single tap of the pad.  This laptop is 
(unfortunately) Win8 dual boot.  In Win8, if I tap the middle of the touch 
pad, it acts like a left button click. Is there any way to do the same in 
Linux - I'm using F20 with KDE.

Also, on the DELL I had the following script which turned on 3-button 
emulation.

Anyone got any suggestions how I could do this better on the HP?

#!/bin/bash

X='/usr/bin/xinput'

for F in `$X list|grep Logitech|cut -d = -f 2|cut -c1-3` ; do                             
                                                        
  $X set-prop $F "Evdev Middle Button Emulation" 1                              
                                                                                 
done 

Gary

[William Oliver]

On Mon, 17 Nov 2014, fedora wrote:

>  Hi Gary
>  i own an HP EliteBook with similar touchpad as you describe. I followed the 
>  instructions in
>  https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Touchpad_Synaptics
>  but was only partially happy, to say the least:
>
>  1. single tap as click left mouse button works practically always
>  2. two finder scroll works always
>  3. two finder tap as click right mouse button works  about 50%
>  4. three finder tap as click middle button works practically never.
>
>  suomi
>  [snip] 
I'm thinking about replacing my aging laptop.  I remember a few years ago that there
were some places that listed what laptops were and were not linux-friendly.

Is there a good site that lists the degree of fedora-friendliness for (relatively) recent
laptop models?

billo

[fedora]

Hi Gary
i own an HP EliteBook with similar touchpad as you describe. I followed 
the instructions in
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Touchpad_Synaptics
but was only partially happy, to say the least:

1. single tap as click left mouse button works practically always
2. two finder scroll works always
3. two finder tap as click right mouse button works  about 50%
4. three finder tap as click middle button works practically never.

suomi

On 2014-11-17 12:31, Gary Stainburn wrote:
>  Onwards and upwards. I'm going for a micro USB WIFI adaptor to
> fix my wireless
>  problem so I'm now moving onto my touchpad.
>
>  The problem I have is that unlike traditional touch pads the left and right
>  mouse buttons on this laptop are part of the touch pad itself. The problem
>  I'm experiencing here is that when I press the lower left or lower right
>  corner to activate the mouse buttons the mouse pointer also moves.
>
>  Does anyone have any suggestions?
>
>  One option for the left button is a single tap of the pad.  This laptop is
>  (unfortunately) Win8 dual boot.  In Win8, if I tap the middle of the touch
>  pad, it acts like a left button click. Is there any way to do the same in
>  Linux - I'm using F20 with KDE.
>
>  Also, on the DELL I had the following script which turned on 3-button
>  emulation.
>
>  Anyone got any suggestions how I could do this better on the HP?
>
>  #!/bin/bash
>
>  X='/usr/bin/xinput'
>
>  for F in `$X list|grep Logitech|cut -d = -f 2|cut -c1-3` ; do
>     $X set-prop $F "Evdev Middle Button Emulation" 1
>  done
>
>  Gary
>

Linux Hardware Compatibility List (was: HP Envy ...)

[Kenneth Marcy]

On 11/17/2014 7:30 AM, Bill Oliver wrote:
>  <[snip]> 
>  I'm thinking about replacing my aging laptop.  I remember a few
> years 
>  ago that there were some places that listed what laptops were and were 
>  not linux-friendly.
>
>  Is there a good site that lists the degree of fedora-friendliness for 
>  (relatively) recent laptop models? 
The LinuxQuestions.org site maintains an HCL -- Hardware Compatibility List.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl/


Ken