Comment 51 for bug 1026046

The mtrack driver does allow finger resting in the bottom area, but I found it to be too rough around the edges in other areas that I couldn't use it. The cursor tracking feels weird and unnatural to me. It would also seem to accelerate when I would approach the bottom of my screen. Also, it seemed like it wasn't possible to segment the bottom area into right & left buttons (ie. every click is a left click). This would likely be an issue with the synaptics driver as well though.

Its sad that all this time has passed without proper support in linux for clickpads to emulate trackpads with physical buttons. Seems like this has never been a problem for Windows and OSX drivers.

I ended up just forcing myself to use tap-to-click. I'm getting used to it, but I still don't like it. I erroneously click every once in a while and dragging just plain sucks. I wish I had physical buttons on my trackpad like before :( Don't know if I should hold out any hope of this issue being resolved anytime soon.