E14 : Trackpad Discussion Only

[Wall of Voodoo]

The Windows Update driver did nothing for me.

[MagusDraco]

Originally Posted by sjmurphy

how do i go about deleting/disabling this two finger scrolling thing i downloaded? It is very very bad and made my trackpad uncontrollable.

it should be in your system tray (you can stop it from loading on boot)


it's also not really installed. it just sits in the folder you put it.

[sjmurphy]

Oh ok thanks! I happened to find it right when i was reading this lol.

[Harb67]

Originally Posted by nexus14

it's because he's talking about the envy 15 drivers. those drivers for that computer have such an option but not the en14

Damn, I wish that had been mentioned in the post or something...that feature sounds amazing. Wish we could have it on the E14

[kamarge]

Hey guys,

So I took a look at the TwoFingerScroll source code and ended up making a few minor changes to it to work better with the Envy 14 trackpad. You can download and try it out here:
http://envy14-trackpad-app.googlecod...vy14-v0.01.zip

Some notes:
-you must disable the standard synaptic two finger scroll from the mouse settings, you should find the two finger scroll in this app is WAY more responsive and smooth than the standard one *Update* be sure to enable "smooth scroll" in the twofingerscroll app settings
-for those people who click the left mouse button with their thumb while using their pointer to track, you should find the mouse doesn't jump anymore (or far less)
-otherwise I just modified the app so drag and drop work correctly and there is no mouse skipping

If people find this useful I'll spend some more time polishing it up. Disclaimer: I have basically zero c++ experience so don't expect this to be bug free.

Adam

[HeavyH20]

I made some changes to the settings that have seemed to emulate what I am used to as a trackpad. The biggest challenge with this one is the buttons are also part of the touchpad. Any multi-finger gestures cause issues as you slide your fingers to the click zones for the buttons. If they were smart, they would have enabled a feature to disable touchpad area on the buttons. That would have fixed everything.

Here are the items I have:

Disable two finger scrolling
Disable pinch zoom
Palm check up a notch or two from default
Touch sensitivity down a notch toward light touch

I also enabled the single finger vertical scroll area on the right side - always found that handy and the pad is big enough. I narrowed the field quite a bit so the right 2 or 3 mm detects this.

[Tee.Kay.]

Tap to drag is an essential thing to have enabled...dragging otherwise is awful. It is a bit hard to get it to work every time you want to do it, but I found that the faster the 2 taps are the better.

I've been using 2fingerscroll and it's great. I made 1+1 finger tap right click, two finger tap back, three finger tap forward, and two + one finger tap middle mouse to bring up the scroll thing, which can actually be quite useful as an alternative to twofinger scrolling sometimes.

I have also found that no matter what I disable, as long as scrolling is enabled within the twofingerscroll program, it makes it impossible to either drag or highlight or such by pressing the left button and dragging another finger...the cursor just remains in place. So I've turned scroll type to off in twofingerscroll. Now everything works great for me. I'm also using tap to click though, I used to not like it but I've come around to it and it's much easier. I guess the problem are from the people who still like using the actual buttons? I've made mine so I never have to click the buttons ever.

[msweeney]

Originally Posted by Tee.Kay.

Tap to drag is an essential thing to have enabled...dragging otherwise is awful. It is a bit hard to get it to work every time you want to do it, but I found that the faster the 2 taps are the better.

I've been using 2fingerscroll and it's great. I made 1+1 finger tap right click, two finger tap back, three finger tap forward, and two + one finger tap middle mouse to bring up the scroll thing, which can actually be quite useful as an alternative to twofinger scrolling sometimes.

I have also found that no matter what I disable, as long as scrolling is enabled within the twofingerscroll program, it makes it impossible to either drag or highlight or such by pressing the left button and dragging another finger...the cursor just remains in place. So I've turned scroll type to off in twofingerscroll. Now everything works great for me. I'm also using tap to click though, I used to not like it but I've come around to it and it's much easier. I guess the problem are from the people who still like using the actual buttons? I've made mine so I never have to click the buttons ever.

I mentioned "tap to drag" some time ago in this thread but people don't want to take the time to go through the synaptics settings to customize the touchpad to their liking. I didn't like it at first, but after customizing the settings it is quite nice.

[kamarge]

Originally Posted by Tee.Kay.

I have also found that no matter what I disable, as long as scrolling is enabled within the twofingerscroll program, it makes it impossible to either drag or highlight or such by pressing the left button and dragging another finger...the cursor just remains in place

Try my custom built version of twofingerscroll that I posted in this thread. It should fix this.

[msweeney]

I updated the touchpad driver to 15.0.17.4 and every time I would go into the synaptics mouse properties it would say something like "driver version is not compatible with synaptics control panel extension". Despite the message it didn't seem to cause any visible limitations in the control panel. Now magically after a day or so I am not getting the "driver version not compatible with synaptics control panel extension" anymore. Anyone else have this and know what's up?