I was looking for a way to use my touchpad like a tablet on Linux and came across this post from 3 years ago: community/forums/topics/1238167.
Unfortunately, the link to the repo was broken for me, so I wanted to make my own program to do this: https://github.com/ElijaRock/touchpad-abs
DISCLAIMER: I am a beginner programmer and my code could be considered "bad practice" since I'm not too familiar with C.
I have tested it on Fedora 38 using Wayland but it should also work on other distros and hopefully also X11. It supports both the full-size area of the touchpad and a user-configurable reduced area with a bit more setup.
The install/configuration process might be considered a bit user unfriendly and am open to suggestions and improvements on the issues page: https://github.com/ElijaRock/touchpad-abs/issues. Also if anyone knows how to make the program work without `sudo` privelages it would be greatly appreciated. I've tried adding the user to the `input` group but it doesn't work.
Cheers.
Unfortunately, the link to the repo was broken for me, so I wanted to make my own program to do this: https://github.com/ElijaRock/touchpad-abs
DISCLAIMER: I am a beginner programmer and my code could be considered "bad practice" since I'm not too familiar with C.
I have tested it on Fedora 38 using Wayland but it should also work on other distros and hopefully also X11. It supports both the full-size area of the touchpad and a user-configurable reduced area with a bit more setup.
The install/configuration process might be considered a bit user unfriendly and am open to suggestions and improvements on the issues page: https://github.com/ElijaRock/touchpad-abs/issues. Also if anyone knows how to make the program work without `sudo` privelages it would be greatly appreciated. I've tried adding the user to the `input` group but it doesn't work.
Cheers.