Thursday, August 28, 2014

How to fix MacBook Pro touchpad on Ubuntu 14.04

I spend few long hours to try to fix default crappy touchpad behavior, before finally I got to this.
And by "crappy" I mean: not working gestures, buttons clicked on random, cannot properly select text, etc... basic test: you simply cannot play solitaire ;-).

Finally I found mtrack! 

3 easy steps:
1) install
sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-input-mtrack

2) at the bottom of configuration add those settings (instead vi you could use nano/gedit):
sudo vi /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf


my settings are:
Section "InputClass"
        MatchIsTouchpad "on"
        Identifier      "Touchpads"
        Driver          "mtrack"
        Option          "Sensitivity" "0.95"
        Option          "FingerHigh" "12"
        Option          "FingerLow" "1"
        Option          "IgnoreThumb" "true"
        Option          "IgnorePalm" "true"
        Option          "TapButton1" "0"
        Option          "TapButton2" "0"
        Option          "TapButton3" "0"
        Option          "TapButton4" "0"
        Option          "ClickFinger1" "1"
        Option          "ClickFinger2" "3"
        Option          "ClickFinger3" "3"
        Option          "ButtonMoveEmulate" "false"
        Option          "ButtonIntegrated" "true"
        Option          "ClickTime" "25"
        Option          "BottomEdge" "25"
        Option          "SwipeLeftButton" "8"
        Option          "SwipeRightButton" "9"
        Option          "SwipeUpButton" "0"
        Option          "SwipeDownButton" "0"
        Option          "ScrollDistance" "75"
        Option          "ScrollUpButton" "5"
        Option          "ScrollDownButton" "4"
EndSection

note ScrollUpButton/ScrollDownButton - changed to default apple like behavior ("natural");

3) restart and enjoy:

sudo restart lightdm



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