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  1. Bug #365952
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Comment 1 for bug 365952

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Alberto Milone (albertomilone) wrote :

As you can see in the attached patch, I have implemented the support for a "MovementBottomEdge" option which, if set through either xorg.conf, synclient or xinput, allows users to blacklist the area of the touchpad below the value set in this option.

For example to set the new property to "4100" through Xinput you will have to type:
xinput set-int-prop "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" "Synaptics Movement Bottom Edge" 32 4100

to disable it:
xinput set-int-prop "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" "Synaptics Movement Bottom Edge" 32 0

NOTE: you will have to replace "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" with the name of your touchpad.

The "MovementBottomEdge" option is set to 0 hence disabled by default, therefore no one will notice a change in the behaviour of their touchpad unless they manually set this option.