I’m facing a similar issue on Fedora 34. However, I’m running the KDE Plasma environment, so Gnome Tweaks won’t do much for me.
In my case, right click doesn’t work at all (tried two-finger clicking and clicking the right half and bottom right quadrant of my touchpad with no success).
Click and drag works but only with a single finger. I like being able to click and hold with my pointer finger in the bottom left quadrant of the touchpad, then use my middle finger to drag the window around. Attempting to do this does nothing except cause the cursor to change.
I’ll try disabling PS2 emulation in the morning to see if this helps anything.
This quirk has already been merged into the latest version of libinput, so I’m not sure if that would help me. I thought I’d try anyways but I don’t have an /etc/libinput folder, so I don’t know if that’ll work as expected.
After disabling PS2 emulation in BIOS, I don’t notice any immediate differences in behavior. Right clicking still does not function at all and drag still requires one hand. Touchpad settings still look identical.
I should note that if I turn on tapping, two finger tapping does work to bring up the context (right click) menu. However, I would instead like this to be a two finger click, not a two finger tap. And this requires me to enable one finger tapping to click, which causes all sorts of unexpected behavior when I accidentally tap my trackpad.
But there is no /usr/share/libinput/50-framework.quirks in the RPM package.
Seeing the document Device quirks — libinput 1.25.0 documentation , you can add the file under the /usr/share/libinput directory. Also possibly you can check a list of config files by sudo libinput list-devices. I don’t have Framework Laptop to test yet.
In this case, a temporary quirks file is better as in the libinput next released version, the file path is occupied by the RPM package. You can create the file /etc/libinput/local-overrides.quirks by creating the directory /etc/libinput.
The model quirks are part of the source distribution and should never be modified. For temporary local workarounds, libinput reads the /etc/libinput/local-overrides.quirks file.
@junaruga That seems to have gotten it. After adding that quirk and rebooting, drag behavior is now what I would expect. I can now click and hold with one finger and drag with another.
As for right clicking, clicking in the bottom right corner now functions as expected. I may look into changing this to being generally on the right side of the trackpad instead, but I’m happy to have the functionality at all for now.
Yeah, I’m able to right click with the two finger gesture. However clicking with the bottom right doesn’t work for right click. In fact with physical clicking it doesn’t seem to register anything at all, I only get the tactile click feeling. I’m afraid it might be a hardware issue.
There is a known issue around this (Known issues on early Framework Laptops). Could you reach out to Support so that we can trade you a new Input Cover? We’re trying to get more samples of this issue so that we can root cause and resolve it.
Chiming in here. I recently got a new input cover as my old input cover had a short/burnt on the board and connector.
I’ve installed the necessary drivers via the driver bundle. Device manager looks good no discrepancies noted. I am running Windows 10 fully updated. At first, the touchpad wouldn’t recognize my taps in order to click or “right click” into a menu not until I followed the advice to turn off the ps/2 emulator in BIOS. Now all my gestures work fine. As for the tactile, none of that works at all. I’m sure I get a good “click” everything seems to work fine mechanically but the OS doesn’t seem to detect it at all. Any suggestions would be really appreciated.
This is potentially the same hardware issue. If you could contact Support for a new Input Cover, that would be best. We’ll ask for the one you have back to analyze it.
tl;dr I think this workaround doesn’t work for me™; (distro=manjaro)
@junaruga thanks for figuring things out - I’m not having success, Can you (or anyone) LMK if maybe I’m incorrectly summarizing the solution below thus far?
exact steps: file manipulations, source links, etc.
summary of temporary-workaround steps junaruga found:
Then, upon reboot, two-finger scroll/right-click just works? Or am I misunderstanding?
Total aside: interestingly pricedspacefan reports above Manjaro Xfce two-finger scroll works for them. No idea what’s different… maybe I’m hitting a hardware issue…
I had this issue but changing the PS2 mouse emulation setting as @Kieran_Levin suggested fixed it! Only had it for a day and so far its definitely the best laptop I’ve ever had.
Hm, just got my DIY laptop today and I seem to be having the same issue with not recognizing double taps or gestures. Just wondering if anyone has heard anything new? Turning off PS2 simulation makes it so my touchpad just doesn’t work at all, and I’ve installed the driver bundle multiple times. Device manager shows many uninstalled/unknown devices (a Base System Device, an SM Bus Controller, four PCI Devices, and five Unknown Devices) that Windows can’t install, and my only input shown is a PS2 mouse, no touchpad at all.
Help please! I otherwise love this laptop but this is really frustrating.
An update! In case anyone else comes here with this issue, I was just dumb, and framework support helped me out. In short, I was using the wrong driver bundle. If you are on 12th gen, you need the bundle here: Framework Laptop BIOS and Driver Releases (12th Gen Intel® Core™). Many of the ‘latest software’ links still head to the 11th gen, and I wasn’t careful enough to notice the mismatch. Once installed, everything is perfect!
