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Where is the official documentation of the parameters supported by synclient tool to twek touchpads?

There are a lot of matches if you search the web for "HorizHysteresis" or "TouchpadOff". But I could not find the official reference.

guettli
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  • @Rinzwind sorry, I am blind. Your link does not tell me the meaning of `"TouchpadOff=2" . – guettli Nov 26 '14 at 07:43
  • Your questions became intruiging. The documentation only mentions 0 and 1 (on and off). 2 seems to indicate "only disable scrolling and tapping" BUT it is no where in any reference I looked at. – Rinzwind Nov 26 '14 at 07:59
  • I wrote an answer myself. There is a link to the docs for `"TouchpadOff=2" – guettli Nov 26 '14 at 12:35

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Found it:

http://www.x.org/archive/X11R7.5/doc/man/man4/synaptics.4.html

Thanks to @Rinzwind for the link to synclient man page.

guettli
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Manual page from x.org. So that might be the official documentation though it is a manual styled one so it will be the same information if you type man synclient.

The arch website has a very thorough documentation: Touchpad_Synaptics

And the command itself will list all user options with:

synclient -l

Regarding: "TouchpadOff=2" in comments: The arch website has a section "Software toggle" that seems to indicate it has a 0 and 1 as options; not a 2.

edit: I also found this script:

#!/bin/bash
# touchpad-off - bash script to turn the synaptics touch pad off

# synclient TouchpadOff=1
# Alternatively, only disable scrolling and tapping
synclient TouchpadOff=2

But I have not found any official reference on this...

So it seems your question is not that odd ;)

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  • The arch website is not the official documentation. – guettli Nov 26 '14 at 07:52
  • Why care if it is official? I'd rather have good documentation ;) – Rinzwind Nov 26 '14 at 07:53
  • If upstream does not deliver good docs, there will be hunderts blog posts which don't get updated. My point of view: If there is no official (from upstream) docs, there are no good docs. – guettli Nov 26 '14 at 12:36