When the timer ends, if your palm is already resting on the pad it ignores your palm until you lift it off and press it down again.ĭell's touchcheck doesn't seem to be timer based. The slider lets you control the duration and each keypress resets the timer. When you start typing, it appears to start a timer and completely disables all touchpad input until that timer ends. Toshiba's palm guard slider uses "better" logic.
If this is the case the Toshiba driver might actually be better overall. I'm on the latest Dell driver and although I get the horizontal cursor when I do the horizontal scrolling motion, Firefox won't scroll horizontally for some reason. One thing I should correct myself on is that I thought horizontal scroll didn't work with the Toshiba driver, but I think this might just be a Firefox issue. I tried maximum touchcheck too but it seemed to lose a lot of my taps when I wanted to tap left click, even when bumping the tapping sensitivity all the way down to light, so I can't use it on maximum. It's not perfect, but it's better than before. I am having much less side effects as a result so things have improved while typing.
I disabled the pointing stick like you suggested and have bumped the touchcheck a notch up from the default. With the Toshiba driver it disables the touchpad as you type so that these mistakes can't happen and you can graze or even rest your palm on the touchpad surface.Īnyhow, a link to any old versions of an ALPS driver that works on Dell with tap zones, browser swipe regions, and "typing palm guard" would be appreciated.Ĭlick to expand.Thanks for the tips John. On the Dell drivers when you type and graze your palm against the pad you can inadvertently move your cursor, select text in a random area, or accidentally lose focus from the edit box. So this suggests to me there are more options available that the ALPS hardware on our machines can support than provided by the Dell drivers. Horizontal scroll didn't work either on the Toshiba drivers but a feature I can only describe as "typing palm guard" works on the Toshiba version even though the Dell drivers don't have support for it. I tried the latest Toshiba drivers and the driver lets you configure these zones but for some reason it doesn't work. Anybody know which version, if any, had support for tap zones in the corners or for browser back/forward swipe zones? I can't remember where I read it but somebody mentioned that on some of the older versions of the Dell ALPS Touchpad drivers there were more options available.
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