Palm Rejection

Activating Palm Rejection on XPS-13 Ubuntu 16.04

Posted by grcanosa on June 06, 2017

After receiving my brand new XPS-13 with Ubuntu 16.04 the first thing I noticed is that the palm rejection feature is not present at all.

I will try to describe as best as I can the methods I have tried and whether or not they were successful.

libinput

I tried was was suggested here and installed:

sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-input-libinput

Then I edited the file /usr/share/X11/xor:g.conf.d/90-libinput.conf so that it contained this:

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "libinput touchpad catchall"
        MatchIsTouchpad "on"
        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
        Driver "libinput"
        Option "Tapping" "True"
        Option "PalmDetection" "True"
        Option "TappingDragLock" "True"
EndSection

This method was not succesful at first. A little tweak was needed. If you list your /usr/share/X11/xor:g.conf.d/ directory you may have a 51-synaptis.conf file. That file takes precedece over the libinput one that was just created. To solve this problem make a symlink with a smaller number:

sudo ln -s /usr/share/X11/xor:g.conf.d/90-libinput.conf
/usr/share/X11/xor:g.conf.d/40-libinput.conf
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