This page is aimed at addressing issues/learning about installing and troubleshooting OpenBSD on the Lenovo X250. These changes may work with other devices, but I cannot confirm that!

• Toggling the Touchpad to avoid Palm Rejection Issues

Toggling the Touchpad in OpenBSD on Lenovo X250 to Address Palm Rejection Issues.

So, one of the challenges I encountered with OpenBSD is that the touchpad does a really bad job of rejecting motion from my palm. While writing in Emacs I’d often find my mouse jumping around and my writing not where I expected it to be.

After some digging around I found a solution:

How to setup OpenBSD in i3 to toggle touchpad

Create a file in ~/home/bin/ called “toggle-touchpad.sh”

Revisiting OpenBSD

Roughly six months ago I documents my efforts to install FreeBSD on a Lenovo X250 that I bought for that purpose. In that post I noted that the one problem I had with FreeBSD on that device was that the suspend/resume feature did not work. Since this was a laptop and my plan was to use it as a dedicated writing machine that I could take with me on the go, the inability to suspend and resume the device made the whole process a no-go. Yes, I could shutdown and reboot as needed, but I’m lazy and that just didn’t work for me. Moreover, often times I’m just shutting the lid for short periods of time and so the shutdown and boot up for those short periods seemed a bit much.