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    XPS 13 Trackpad improvements

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by Raphie, Apr 22, 2013.

  1. Raphie

    Raphie Notebook Consultant

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    I've read all the other trackpad messages, but I think this deserves a seperate topic as there are too many issues

    The issues i found with the latest April driver are:
    - Still defocus from windows, suddenly focus is gone
    - travel distance at max speed, one still needs to make nearly 3 swipes to go from left to right at max speed
    - finger movement gets confused with Win8 swipe gestures, especially when you move to quick, i switch windows rather then going where i want to go
    - tap on pad, instead of clicking left button, sometimes it works, most of the times it just stops working

    I got my system last Friday, worked with the Dell image for 2 days, then did a clean install myself with a Win8 Pro license. The standard windows8 driver works flawless for basic movement, NONE of the issues above, WHY can't Dell just provide a driver that works? I use my XPS to drive a TRAKTOR DJ setup, I'm now stuck with the Win8 default driver as the Dell driver is just unreliable and unpredictable (defocus from windows, getting stuck in lalaland between 2 screens, needing to push the WIN button to go to START menu en find focus again etc etc.

    Please advise if a non wonky driver is in the works and when we can expect it?
    As i like the 2 finger stuff, but the SLOW speed and very small threshold between what it thinks is a swipe and what is cursor movement kills it for me.




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    Raphie, Apr 22, 2013
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    Raphie Notebook Consultant

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    Also forgot to mention, with the Dell driver the system gets "stuck" every once and while, just like a second or so, also taking focus on push buttons doesn't work 100% and you can click the button, but nothing happens, moving to another window and back regains focus. It's unworkable.....


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    Raphie, Apr 22, 2013
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    Try:
    1: Disable "hand rejection"
    2: Increase speed

    I am currently testing that and it seems to work

    The other radical way is to uninstall the driver. You loose the multi fingers gestures, but the pad works perfectly well...
    I have not found a basic driver allowing two fingers scroll
     
    ohyeah1, May 29, 2013
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