05-30-2021, 04:04 PM
Hi all,
I read this and OP's post was exactly what I was experiencing on my new pinebook pro (rcvd 4/2021). But I have found the cause of the issue, and it's just a setting. Once the touchpad settings were changed from stock I have found it completely usable, not the best touchpad ever, but not the headache that it was before. This is especially true since the smaller screen size made getting the cursor from close to the thing you wanted to click, onto that thing. You couldn't just move a little, you would move and nothing would happen, then it would finally move and jump past your target. So the setting in question is found in manjaro by going to start button>system settings>input devices>touchpad then to the pointer motion tab. The setting in question is the noise cancellation, I think by default it was set to 8 for vertical and horizontal. Not sure of the specifics, but basically you could select 8 units of movement before the cursor would move, causing great frustration. I changed both settings to 0, which made a vast improvement. I also slowed down the cursor having minimum speed at about 75% of the way to the first notch, maximum speed 25% past the second notch, and and acceleration 25% past the first notch. Change the settings, click apply at the bottom right and breathe a sigh of relief.
Hope this helps, possibly the defaults can be adjusted for when new systems are shipped they won't have this problem.
BCB
I read this and OP's post was exactly what I was experiencing on my new pinebook pro (rcvd 4/2021). But I have found the cause of the issue, and it's just a setting. Once the touchpad settings were changed from stock I have found it completely usable, not the best touchpad ever, but not the headache that it was before. This is especially true since the smaller screen size made getting the cursor from close to the thing you wanted to click, onto that thing. You couldn't just move a little, you would move and nothing would happen, then it would finally move and jump past your target. So the setting in question is found in manjaro by going to start button>system settings>input devices>touchpad then to the pointer motion tab. The setting in question is the noise cancellation, I think by default it was set to 8 for vertical and horizontal. Not sure of the specifics, but basically you could select 8 units of movement before the cursor would move, causing great frustration. I changed both settings to 0, which made a vast improvement. I also slowed down the cursor having minimum speed at about 75% of the way to the first notch, maximum speed 25% past the second notch, and and acceleration 25% past the first notch. Change the settings, click apply at the bottom right and breathe a sigh of relief.
Hope this helps, possibly the defaults can be adjusted for when new systems are shipped they won't have this problem.
BCB