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If things don’t improve, this StarLite will likely be the last Linux device I get.
Not asking for much, just:
- Battery life to at least match my ten-year-old iPad. (I’d be happy with something lasted more than two-
(sorry, cursor just jumped while typing that – see point 2, below)
-three hours.
- Trackpad that disables while typing so I can, well, type.
Basically, just a machine that gets the basics right.
(Really - sorry cursor jumped - want to love this machine. Just can’t.)
@aral Buy without an OS and stick your own Linux distro on it. I'm afraid that Star Labs has declined in product, IMHO.
@linuxgnome I did :) (Although StarLabs installs a wide range of operating systems, to their credit.) This is a firmware and/or hardware issue with the magnetic keyboar, ju- oops, cursor just jumped while I was writing the apology for almost accidentally closing this reply – d – sorry –
*sigh*
While you wait for the trackpad issue to be resolved, am I right to assume you can mitigate the problem by adjusting trackpad sensitivity?
@linuxgnome
@bitnik @linuxgnome Hmm, actually, I’m wondering if it’s only an issue when tap-to-click is enabled. (I believe so.)
@aral
According to this post https://community.frame.work/t/solved-disable-touchpad-while-typing-ubuntu-linux/26477/6
touchpad is auto disabled while typing by default in Ubuntu 22.04 (and newer presumably) I don't know what flavour distro you are using but it's a pretty popular query/request but I'm not seeing a lot of extensions/apps etc to manage this behaviour (messing with lib configs yes, gui not so much)
@bitnik @linuxgnome
@acesabe @bitnik @linuxgnome Yeah, it’s set as disabled in GNOME for me under Fedora but that doesn’t disable tap-to-click.
@aral
Have you checked the gconf setting for this or maybe just try the following?
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad disable-while-typing true
From:
https://ostechnix.com/how-to-automatically-disable-touchpad-when-typing-in-ubuntu/
@aral My bad, then. What I dislike most is the non-modular construction (yes, a common problem). I HATE soldered RAM. I dislike it when, if you disengage the battery, you can' get the sodding thing connected again. I almost bricked my StarLite - which I can now only use with the power cable.
@linuxgnome Ah, sorry to hear it. I wouldn’t be brave enough to open this up :)
@aral @linuxgnome
Shitty. Plasma has a specific setting for turning off the touchpad when typing, so maybe it's a DE thing and not a linux thing? No idea about the battery life and other issues though. I've never owned a new laptop, so battery life on mine have always been low and I've always just assumed it's the age of the battery and not the OS. Not great to find out otherwise 
@GuerillaOntologist @linuxgnome GNOME has that too. And it’s on. So it’s either an issue in GNOME where tap-to-click isn’t disabled as part of that or it’s an issue with @starlabssystems StarLite firmware.
@aral @linuxgnome @starlabssystems 
my condolences...
If you have gnome-tweaks-tool installed, take a look in there and see if it's possible to fine-tune this behaviour.
@GuerillaOntologist @linuxgnome @starlabssystems
@aral @GuerillaOntologist @linuxgnome
Hi Aral,
After a brief chat in the office, I've been told it's an issue with GNOME.
I spent the best part of the day trying to construct a reply to that effect without feeling like I was finger-pointing because, on the company account, that's a no-go.
And then I went down this rabbit hole:
@starlabssystems @aral @GuerillaOntologist @linuxgnome
I have the exact same issue on other computers with Gnome. It is not specific for the StarLink.
@starlabssystems @aral @GuerillaOntologist @linuxgnome
Now I can't edit to correct the error.
@starlabssystems @GuerillaOntologist @linuxgnome Thank you for looking into it. Good to know :)
@aral @starlabssystems @GuerillaOntologist @linuxgnome yeah, gnome took the wayland stuff far too literally in my experience, enough so that they block actually useful stuff. I'm not gonna get in the weeds about how wayland has design issues and so on, but a lot, and I mean a lot, of issues are because gnome refuses to compromise on anything which isn't absolutely necesary to run some kind of desktop. Server side decorations, never heard of them. Proper fractional scaling, what's that? hdr support, we don't need that, so let's do the bare minimum. Global keyboard shortcuts portal, perhaps I suppose? image copy capture protocol and the other one, those which allow users to capture a window only if they want instead of the entire screen, grudgingly if at all implemented. Support for xwayland apps to get keyboard events? nope, grumbles something about security. Support for notifications and app indicators done with an x11 hack before the dbus standard got created? hmm, nope, that's too old, everyone should have migrated by now. Should I continue? I'm glad they got the sovereign tech fund stipend for implementing accessibility stuff and other infrastructure things, but there are still issues in many areas. I like to use kde much more, even if the kde settings are absolutely horrible to navigate with a screenreader, and that should be saying something. Not saying the gnome people don't do awesome things, not saying their stuff isn't great for what it is, because it's a good desktop if you fall within the 99% of regular users who don't want fancy stuff, but when you do hit the gnome limitations, it does feel very much like hitting a brick wall, and that's about the resolution you get when trying to go over those.