@Stevo:
I went further into this. In the meantime I discovered that middle-clicking doesn't work either, so I really have to do something about this. A laptop without a working touchpad is pretty much useless.
I didn't find any discussion about the exact DELL notebook I have here, but some about close relatives, so I guess that one of those should definitely apply to this notebook here.
1) Some discussion indicates that this is a
kernel issue, and it has been fixed with some Ubuntu 4.9.* kernel version (
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... ug/1590590) (provided that the other DELL users have the same Touchpad). However, I remember testing some 4.9.* liquorix kernel, and I don't remember it fixing anything.
EDIT: I tried out the 4.10.0-15.2-liquorix-amd64 once more, but to no avail. Btw., according to the above-mentioned Launchpad discussion, seems that this touchpad actually is not a Synaptics one but from ALPS. The DELL driver for MS Windows is called
Input_Driver_WWVKD_WN32_19.0.27.3_A04.EXE.
2) The Arch people recommend
trying the libinput (
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Libinput),
and libgestures, but I can't find libinput in any MX-16 Repo. Here:
https://medium.com/@patrickmmartin/dell ... d9b551d291 is an instruction about how to add lines for the palm detection to your 90-libinput.conf file.
Would it be possible to provide libinput and libgestures in the MX Test Repo, or would that collide with the Xfce desktop?
3) Here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/chrultrabook/c ... alk_about/ some guy who says that he is the developer of the Windows driver for the DELL Chromebook 13 says that in Linux
xf86-input-cmt (
https://github.com/hugegreenbug/xf86-input-cmt) would be preferable. Seems that you need
libgestures here also.
Would it be possible to provide xf86-input-cmt and the above-mentioned libgestures in the MX Test Repo, or would that collide with the Xfce desktop?
4) Talking about it, when I thought I'd just have to tweak the configuration a little, I happened to miss
gpointing-device-settings.
Can that be used in MX-16 also?
Greetings, Joe