[cycloptic]

You can help improve the situation: The libinput project mentioned in the article is attempting to cut back on the amount of configuration and provide sane defaults for things like this, but there are a huge amount of touchpads out there to test. The idea is that once something is added to their database of "quirks", then it can be contributed upstream, and the device will be configured correctly for everyone. More info here: https://who-t.blogspot.com/2018/06/libinput-and-its-device-q...

If you figure out the right settings while using the legacy synaptics driver, please consider translating them a libinput quirks file and sending them back to the right place. I promise you are not the only one who doesn't want to fiddle around with legacy drivers anymore.