My touchpad often runs out of physical surface when, say, I want to drag’n’drop a file. When my finger reaches the side of the touchpad before the mouse pointer gets to where it should be I have to cancel and start again with more momentum. In Windows when this happens and I don’t lift my finger the mouse pointer continues to travel slowly in the same direction. In case I missed it, is there a setting in KDE Plasma 6 enabling that behaviour?
Another touchpad feature I am missing is the Back (as in browser Back) functionality I get in Windows when I tap the bottom left corner. Is that possible?
That’s on a Lenovo Thinkpad X1 with Debian Trixie and KDE Plasma.
EDIT: I just discovered KDE Plasma 6 has a setting called ‘Tap-and-drag lock’. If you lift your finger and quickly reposition you can continue dragging. That’s the most intuitive method, and more elegant than Windows.
Drag until you run out of space, touch second finger further back. Lift first finger and keep dragging with second finger
This moonwalk does work. Thanks!
I found that using pointer acceleration has stopped this situation from occurring much anymore, but still, when I do find myself cornered, moonwalking remains my safety dance :)