Touchpad Tap-and-drag-lock behavior

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hi, i just upgraded to the latest fedora 42 (from 41) and loving it so far on my laptop. Theres a small issue: the behavior of the tap-and-drag-lock (a setting for the touchpad) has changed and i cannot revert this change (or didnt find a way anyway). Before, that setting enabled for the drag feature using a tap on the touchpad to continue dragging for a small amount of time if i lifted and repositioned my finger somewhere else on the touchpad. This is especially useful for gnome, as in windows it goes on and on if you reach the border of the touchpad, whereas the default behavior on linux (with this disabled) was to just stop and you had to click another time for it to resume dragging. Now, when i try to drag, the small timeframe is gone, and the window stays attached to the cursor even after a long period of time, and only deattaches when i click another time. Is there a way to revert this change? is there an extension, maybe? the only way to see and use these settings is with dconf editor (or the terminal) at /org/gnome/desktop/peripherals/touchpad/tap-and-drag-lock. It also happens with selected text, as in if i select a text it continues selecting until i click (instead of just waiting 300ms or so and then releasing the “dragging” automatically. Thank you for your time!

EDIT:
I found this input-settings/native: Default to sticky drag lock (!4292) · Merge requests · GNOME / mutter · GitLab, it mentions that there should be another “timeout” setting somewhere, but i cant find it anywhere

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Hi @marci33

While I do not have direct answer to you (I have never used that feature), I’ll lt you know how I have always used the tap-and-drag when needing area beyond the pad size. Maybe you already know, but no harm done in that case :slight_smile:

Instead of lift and reposition, just keep the first finger on the pad and drag further with a second finger. That finger can then be lifted and repositioned as many times as needed, as long as the first finger stays on the pad as well :+1:

/Jaybe

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What’s the output of:

gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad tap-and-drag-lock

If it’s true, does it change the behaviour if you set the value to false?

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad tap-and-drag-lock false
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it is true, and when i set it to false i lose the commodity of being able to quickly lift a finger while dragging a window to reposition the finger on the touchpad. As in the link i provided on the post, the feature is working as intended in gnome 48 (sticky by default), i just wanted to know if there’s a way to revert the behavior to gnome 47 (timeout).