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Comment 4 for bug 1672619

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spike speigel (frail-knight) wrote : Re: touch pad on xps 13 need better palm detection mechanism

/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf has this:

# Example xorg.conf.d snippet that assigns the touchpad driver
# to all touchpads. See xorg.conf.d(5) for more information on
# InputClass.
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE, your distribution will likely overwrite
# it when updating. Copy (and rename) this file into
# /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d first.
# Additional options may be added in the form of
# Option "OptionName" "value"
#
Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "touchpad catchall"
        Driver "synaptics"
        MatchIsTouchpad "on"
# This option is recommend on all Linux systems using evdev, but cannot be
# enabled by default. See the following link for details:
# http://who-t.blogspot.com/2010/11/how-to-ignore-configuration-errors.html
      MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
EndSection

I simply added:

        Option "Tapping" "on"
        Option "PalmDetection" "on"

I also enabled "Disable touchpad while typing" under "Mouse and Touchpad" in System Settings...Probably did the same thing as adding those lines in the file. The touchpad behaved much better after that.