Is it possible to configure a Framework laptop with a touchpad that has separate buttons?
Dell once had laptops with a great keyboard with a trackpad and a touchpad with very comfortable, slightly rubberized separate buttons.
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Not currently, but you could make one. There is a user-made project with buttons at the top of the touchpad as well iirc
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That is the beauty of this open-source design, isn’t it? If you have a 3D printer and some basic electronics skills, you can build anything you want for this thing.
Hey @4bytecolor the touchpad by default allows you to press on either side of the bottom and click it down to create a single left or right click. I just verified that you could put a piece of paper over the touch pad and it still tracks your finger, and you can click. So, I wonder if you could take some grippy tape like electrical tape and cut 2 rectangles for buttons and stick them at the bottom of the pad to give you that tactile feel of transferring to a button? Just an idea to play around with. You could possibly even 3D print some kind of template to lay over it. Then when you click down on it then the pad will generate the click and based on your finger position should be right or left click. Not sure how well this would work in practice but might give you some ideas on how you could come up with a simple custom solution to feel physical buttons where you push down and feel a click. Give it a try!
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what?
Now I need to see this
That is a horrible idea.
But yeah. If you really dislike the input interface, you can always make your own, the mechanical is all out there.
iirc its somewhere buried in the forums… i don’t remember where I saw it
to be clear the buttons are only at the top of the touchpad and idk if whether it works on the 13 or 16