/** @page t440_support Lenovo *40 series touchpad support The Lenovo *40 series emulates trackstick buttons on the top part of the touchpads. @section t440_support_overview Overview The Lenovo *40 series introduced a new type of touchpad. Previously, all laptops had a separate set of physical buttons for the trackstick. This series removed these buttons, relying on a software emulation of the top section of the touchpad. This is visually marked on the trackpad itself, approximately like this: @dot digraph G { subgraph cluster_0 { margin="0"; clickpad [ shape = "record"; color = "none"; label = "{{LLLLLLLLLL|MMMMM|RRRRRRRRR}|\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n|{LLLLLLLL| |RRRRRRRR}}"; ] } } @enddot This page only covers the top software buttons, the bottom button behavior is covered in @ref clickpad_softbuttons "Clickpad software buttons". Clickpads with a top button area are marked with the INPUT_PROP_TOPBUTTONPAD property. @section t440_support_btn_size Size of the buttons The line of the buttons is 5mm from the top edge of the touchpad, measurements of button presses showed that the size of the buttons needs to be approximately 10mm high to work reliable (especially when using the thumb to press the button). The width of the left and right buttons is approximately 42% of the touchpad's width, the middle button is centered and should be assigned approximately 16% of the touchpad width. @section t440_support_btn_behavior Button behavior Movement in the top button area does not generate pointer movement. These buttons are not replacement buttons for the bottom button area but have their own behavior. Semantically attached to the trackstick device, libinput re-routes events from these buttons to appear through the trackstick device. The top button areas work even if the touchpad is disabled but will be disabled when the trackstick device is disabled. If the finger starts inside the top area and moves outside the button area the finger is treated as dead and must be lifted to generate future buttons. Likewise, movement into the top button area does not trigger button events, a click has to start inside this area to take effect. @section t440_support_identification Kernel support The firmware on touchpads providing top software buttons is buggy and announces wrong ranges. Kernel patches are required; these fixes are available in kernels 3.14.1, 3.15 and later but each touchpad needs a separate fix. For a complete list of supported touchpads check the kernel source (search for "topbuttonpad_pnp_ids"). */