Hello everyone. Hoping to get some experience/shed light on this topic, and put it on Framework’s radar. OS Windows 11.
I have been overall quite happy with my AMD 7640, but one issue that I have that is quite irritating is with the typing experience. I am doing more long typing stints, and while at home I work on a desktop with another keyboard I also work out in coffee shops and such where I use the Framework’s keyboard for hour-two hour typing stints. And the palm rejection on this machine is terrible.
Just today, in about a 1 hour working session, the touchpad moved the mouse to a different section in the document 7 times. Several times it selected a section of other text through a double tap registering with my palm (presumably) and so I had deleted that section via typing over it. I noticed and used undo, but this is a pretty disappointing aspect of the laptop for me.
I wouldn’t have thought as much of it if I hadn’t just been borrowing my wife’s Macbook Air, in which I never had this happen over a 2 hour writing session. Now that I’ve had that experience, I’ve tried to dig in and find out how to improve this. I found the Windows setting for Touchpad Sensitivity, which it appears has some effect on palm rejection, but even at the least sensitive settings it still happens.
So here’s my request. Has anyone found some way to improve on the palm rejection? Or, and this would actually be preferable to me, is there a way to change one of the function keys to toggle the trackpad on and off? I know that I can do a workaround using plugging in an external mouse, but that isn’t actually what I want. The HP laptop I had prior to this had that ability and it was really useful.
If there isn’t the ability to toggle that Touchpad, I would ask that Framework consider building that feature for us. Thank you.