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libinput
Raised as a usability problem by 22 people on Hacker News over 8 years (2016–2023), in 17 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
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Synaptics touchpad behaviour can't be reproduced with libinput optionsUnreviewed
20162026- Clickpads are basically unusable with libinput2023-05-26
- Missing touchpad configuration knobs the commenter needs, as libinput refuses to add them2022-03-21
- Stopping scrolling with a still finger moves the cursor, because libinput and GTK mishandle the gesture2019-03-25
One-finger tap-to-click is forced on, causing accidental clicksUnreviewed
20162026- One-finger tap-to-click is forced on, so two and three finger gestures can't be used without accidental clicks2023-11-12
- Cannot remap two-finger tap to middle-click on touchpads without physical buttons2021-12-15
- Two-finger tap that stops scrolling on macOS triggers a right-click on Linux, causing unwanted context menus2020-05-22
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 27 complaints
- User cannot easily override hardware database choices; tap-to-click is all or nothing2023-11-12
- One-finger tap-to-click is forced on, so two and three finger gestures can't be used without accidental clicks2023-11-12
- Clickpads are basically unusable with libinput2023-05-26
- Touchpad scrolling feels wrong and physically painful compared to the older driver2023-04-04
- Kinetic touchpad scrolling missing in most apps and inconsistent where present2023-03-26
- Missing touchpad configuration knobs the commenter needs, as libinput refuses to add them2022-03-21
- Cannot remap two-finger tap to middle-click on touchpads without physical buttons2021-12-15
- Touchpad has no sensitivity setting, so the user must hard-press and struggles to use it2021-01-10
- Pointer acceleration feels vastly inferior to other operating systems' touchpad behaviour2020-10-06
- Hard to perform small, precise pointer movements, such as tiny circles2020-10-06
- Very fine touchpad movements are ignored or sluggish, with few settings to adjust2020-10-06
- Trackpad acceleration and clicking defaults are poor, and overrides break when device IDs change on reboot2020-05-31
- Touchpad palm rejection is unreliable, and drag and multi-finger clicks often fail2020-05-22
- Jumpy touchpad made Linux nearly useless without an external mouse2020-05-22
- Acceleration setting resets every reboot despite showing the tuned value2020-05-22
- Hard to disable mouse acceleration on non-Windows systems, requiring workarounds2020-05-22
- Two-finger tap that stops scrolling on macOS triggers a right-click on Linux, causing unwanted context menus2020-05-22
- Kinetic scrolling is missing, so each program behaves differently or has none2020-05-22
- Touchpad feels unusable; user avoids it due to frustration, lacks kinetic scroll and sensitivity settings2020-04-12
- Cannot remap trackball buttons because the configuration UI is missing2019-07-07
- Two-finger scrolling has a dead zone and no palm detection option that users can find2019-07-07
- Stopping scrolling with a still finger moves the cursor, because libinput and GTK mishandle the gesture2019-03-25
- Thumb detection is too aggressive, breaking two-finger scrolling2019-03-25
- Touchpad feels bad by default on Windows, Wayland and common Linux distributions until manually configured2018-06-21
- Touchpad feels awful and annoying to use compared to other drivers2018-06-14
- Mouse acceleration feels horrible after switch and fewer tweakable options2018-02-18
- Can't reproduce synaptics touchpad behavior with libinput's options, so the mouse is frustrating2016-12-16