elementary / elementary/settings-mouse-touchpad

Edge Motion

Open
#123 0 comments 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub
Priority: Wishlist
Dominant language
Vala
Stars
27
Forks
14
PR merge metrics
No merged PRs in 30d

Description

## Feature
Synaptic touchpads on Windows have a feature called [Edge Motion](https://documentation.help/Synaptics-TouchPad/synt0e7n.htm). It causes the cursor to keep moving when the user reaches the edge of their touchpad. In Elementary, this would introduce a great solution to the touchpad speed vs. accuracy tradeoff, especially given that the maximum touchpad speed is limited by upstream (see #39).

I've got two of my friends (previously Windows users) to install Elementary, and both of them said they missed this feature.

![screenshot from synaptic](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1671665/71785148-7afebb80-2ffc-11ea-908c-2fce9246ec2d.png)

(Somewhat related terms are Touchpad Momentum and Touchpad Inertia. Mentioning them just for the search engine.)

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

Assessment

This issue has not been assessed yet.

Get new issues in your inbox

A short digest of beginner-friendly GitHub issues.