[RESPONDED] Spurious clicks while using touch pad

[anarcat]

I’m having more and more issues with my touchpad. I don’t quite know when this started because I typically use my laptop when docked, but this is getting more and more noticeable when it isn’t, to the point where it’s irritating enough that I’m looking at fully mouse-less operation (which is something i try to do anyways)…

The symptoms are hard to describe clearly, but typically the problem is with spurious clicks: the desktop is registering clicks when I am not intending on clicking anything. Typing this, for example, I am always nervous that my thumb trips over the touchpad… So far, it hasn’t done so in this session, oddly enough, but I’ve seen pretty bad patterns where it would click randomly on the page, and even select text areas which is pretty catastrophic as then the next thing you type destroys whatever it is that was selected.

I’ve also seen scrolling fail miserably. Just now I was browsing through my Nextcloud calendar listing and couldn’t scroll down (with a two-fingers gesture) without having NC open an even randomly, thinking that i clicked the even while I was just scrolling.

Is the touchpad defective? Or would this be a software problem?

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• OS: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (“bookworm”)
• Laptop: 12th gen intel
• Desktop: Sway/custom desktop

[dfh]

I have a similar experience with my touchpad feeling to sensitive to my thumbs while typing on linux. I do have “disable while typing” enabled in hyprland but frankly it feels like it makes no difference.

Given the limitations of configuration options for libinput when using wayland/ hyprland I’m not certain what and how to test at all. From past research it feels a lot like software limitations.

[anarcat]

see just now the touchpad just completely stopped working for a few seconds, it would just not move the mouse cursor at all.

[Loell_Framework]

On bookworm do check with evtest and choose touchpad see if touch and clicks registers no problem.

Also check with Ubuntu 22.04 live to see if issue is alswo visible their or not.

cheers!

[anarcat]

i just remembered this is not the first time i have issues with the trackpad, see:

Mouse pad click fatigue?

Hi! I’ve had a Framework 12th gen since about September 2022 and it’s been “in production” (daily use) since March 2023. I’m really happy with it: I think it’s one of the best computer I’ve ever owned, which is no small feat considering I’ve owned a Mac Plus (yes I’m old). Recently though the mouse touchpad seems to be showing signs of fatigue. It feels as if the left mouse button doesn’t always activate reliably. For example, right now it seems to work fine: I click here and there and things …

but that issue was different: the touchpad was doing cracking noises and the click (not tap) was just not working reliably. here is different: i have spurious clicks that seem to be related to taps, not clicks.

i should also mention that part of this might be issues with my wayland compositor (Sway). it has a “disable-while-typing” setting (dwt) that I have enabled, but it could not be working, which would explain at least some of the “spurious palm touch” phenomenon. but the “touch while scrolling” issue feels like something different, related to the touchpad itself, hardware.