wsconsctl - Trackpad two finger gestures to drag things

[bceverly]

Hi,

I'm probably not going to express this as clearly as possible so please bear with me.

I pretty much just use Thinkpad hardware, and on their trackpads in other operating systems (Linux, Windows), when I want to drag something, I use one finger to press on the thing being dragged and then drop a second finger on the trackpad and drag it to where I want to put it.

I'm wondering if this is a capability and I just need to figure out the right wsconsctl setting to turn it on or if this is something that was not contemplated?

Thanks,
Bryan

[jggimi]

I have a Synaptics trackpad, and use the following provisions:

$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/70-synaptics.conf
Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "touchpad catchall"
        Driver "synaptics"
        MatchIsTouchpad "on"
        Option "PalmDetect" "on"
EndSection
$ grep syn .xsession
syndaemon -di 1

[shep]

A newer alternative is to set parameters via wsmouse(4).

Mouse parameters can be permanently configured in /etc/wsconsctl.conf. wsconsctl.conf(5)

An example config file in in /etc/examples/wsconsdtl.conf

wsmouse does not have a palm detect although you can use a script mapped to a Function Key to toggle the touchpad on/off:
https://daemonforums.org/showthread.php?t=12295