Hello! Just received a framework laptop and installed arch with GNOME right away. Enjoying it. Really amazing.
But…I can barely right click on my trackpad. If I try 100 times I get get a right click. Tried playing around with GNOME tweaks and GNOME settings. Nothing seemed to fix it. Is there a different driver I should be using besides libinput?
Tends to be a driver issue, try installing windows and see if that works.
Mmmmm no thanks 
Worst case scenario I move to another distro
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@Tucker_Hoog Welcome to the forum. Here’s a good place to start troubleshooting:
- Check if your distro has a recent enough version of the Linux kernel. See this discussion for more about that:
- Try disabling the PS/2 Mouse Emulation mode in BIOS. You may want to check out My touchpad isn’t working.
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Maybe try a live cd of another arch distro. You could install a different Desktop environment, Let us know because you should have a very new kernel with the latest drivers. I like Garuda linux personally wouldn’t hurt to try it in a live environment. Arco linux extended makes it easy to try a bunch of different desktop environments.
Hi @Jacob_Padgett
PS/2 Mouse Emulation is disabled. Running arch linux which has the most recent linux kernel. I’ll try another distro tomorrow.
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Maybe try a live cd of another arch distro. You could install a different Desktop environment, Let us know because you should have a very new kernel with the latest drivers. I like Garuda linux personally wouldn’t hurt to try it in a live environment. Arco linux extended makes it easy to try a bunch of different desktop environments.
Good idea. You may want to try out Ubuntu 21.04, just for testing purposes, since a user reported that it works out-of-the-box for that version. This way, you can rule out hardware issues.
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Right mouse click works fine in Ubuntu 21.04. Which has an older kernel than arch. Has to be a driver issue.
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How are you trying to use right click in Arch-gnome. does 2 finger click work? that is how I do right clicks on my arch system. If you want the bottom right corner of the track pad to work as a right click you may need to change the setting in Gnome Tweaks. I assume its installed by default. If you need to install it I assume the below should work.
sudo pacman -S gnome-tweaks
https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/any/gnome-tweaks/
Also the default for some desktop environments is to have 2 finger clicks with you fingers space further apart.
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Yeah none of that works. I’ve played with gnome tweaks settings and clicked every day you can click a track pad.
@Tucker_Hoog what kernel version are you running on Arch? We actually did have someone from Arch reach out at one point, but we didn’t get a chance to send them a unit to test yet. Maybe we need to do that!
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I’ve had issues like this before on arch and what I ended up doing is enabling tab to click and then just tapping with 2 fingers to right click instead of relying on the buttons. it actually works WAAAY better than the buttons most of the time anyways.
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got arch running on it earlier today!
stable libinput was weird for me. building libinput-git from the AUR fixed it right up. will switch back to stable after the next release that incorporates whatever changes they made.
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FWIW, I was planning to write up the framework for the arch wiki. When I saw that my laptop had finally shipped I created:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Category:Framework
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/User:Dmr/Framework_Laptop
unfortunately, it doesn’t arrive until next thursday (I should have told @nrp I was planning to write this up; he probably would have overnighted it to me instead 
), so I can’t really start actually filling it out until then. However, feel free to copy my template & start an actual page.
Also, it looks like some useful & stealable progress has been made here:
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There’s some more discussion on this in this Reddit thread too https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/ouoyxc/framework_laptop_trackpad/
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