Weird mouse behaviour

[Niclas Zeising]

On 2020-04-27 17:06, Malcolm Matalka wrote:
> 
> 
> Michael Gmelin <freebsd at grem.de> writes:
> 
>>
>> Could you share your setup by running
>>
>>    pkg install ca_root_nss
>>    fetch \
>>    https://raw.githubusercontent.com/grembo/xorg-udev-setup-check/master/xorg-udev-setup-check.sh
>>    ./xorg-udev-setup-check.sh -desk
>>
>> and mailing the resulting file to the list (or just me directly)?
> 
> I ran this and emailed results to Michael.  I fixed the issues it
> brought up and, tada, it's working.
> 
> One thing I'm not sure about is: how do I persist the changes?  I have
> done:
> 
> xinput --set-prop "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" "libinput Tapping
> Enabled" 1
> 
> xinput --set-prop "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" "libinput Accel Speed" 0.3

I put these in my .xinitrc, before i start my window manager.  xinitrc 
is read by startx.  If you're using a session manager (gdm, sddm or 
similar) it should be possible to put the same commands in .xsession 
instead.
> 
> But these names don't seem to directly correspond to names in man 4
> libinput.  Why the difference?
> 
> I also noticed in xorg logs:
> 
> [    34.491] (EE) event6  - SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: kernel bug: Touch jump detected and discarded.
> See https://wayland.freedesktop.org/libinput/doc/1.15.5/touchpad-jumping-cursors.html for details
> [    34.491] (EE) event6  - SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: WARNING: log rate limit exceeded (5 msgs per 7200000ms). Discarding future messages.
> 

Those warnings can be disregarded.  They're not great, but I see them 
too and I haven't found any ill effects.
Regards
-- 
Niclas