I really don’t like the touchpad on this laptop. It’s been getting stuck physically, making it not operate normally. I’m looking for a way to replace it with one that, first of all, fits nicely, and has physical left and right mouse buttons, and the touchpad itself doesn’t click. Middle mouse button is optional. In other words, while I don’t want it to look “hacky” or “tacky”, anything will do.
Now I didn’t look at the connectors yet, but I would assume they are in the documentation somewhere. What ribbon cable does this laptop use for the touchpad? Is it really not compatible with any other type of touchpad? Would some kind of ThinkPad touchpad work?
I can’t offer any advice about replacement touchpads, but I’m curious to know whether your touchpad is still getting stuck even after tightening the laptop case. That seems to have worked for a lot of people, and my impression from the other thread is that it did help you.
Regarding the left/right click - while there aren’t separate buttons, you can configure the trackpad to have the right side click be a right click and the left side click be a left click. This is not the default in GNOME from what I’ve seen - you need to open GNOME Tweaks and change the trackpad click style from “Fingers” to “Area”.
Just wanted to make sure you were aware of this, but replacing the trackpad is still an interesting question that hopefully someone can answer
I’m not going to answer your demand but I would like to ask you if you tried to customize what your touchpad can do/how you make it work? Because about a year ago I got a brand new Asus Laptop (would have loved a Librem but I really needed a 4 cores/ 8 threads CPU since I do a lot of work with VMs and p7zip) with one of these new weird touchpads (I was used to physical buttons) and at first I really hated it, but then I found a customization that fits me perfectly and now every time I have to use a laptop that isn’t mine I always find it very unergonomic (I don’t know if that word exists in english but if it doesn’t by the power od neologism there you go, it now exists).
PS: Sorry my post is a big mess of a lot of digression.
Oops, yes, this is version 3. Touchpad use small white cable and gray sticky contuctive tape for better ground connection. Big black cable is keyboard cable.
