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rickyzhang
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December 16th, 2016 06:00
Support 3-fingers drag for Dell XPS 13
I bought Dell XPS 13 9360 this week. I'm not happy about the status quo of current touch pad in Wayland. I want 3-finger drag so that I can free my another hand like my Mac. I did my research on libinput and Wayland. The developers does not seem to be motivated to do anything about it in near future (see my comment https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=768421#c5).
I don't have time to figure all the things out and patch it. So I suggest we use bounty source to motivate them: https://www.bountysource.com/issues/38423871-support-three-finger-drag
Disclaimer: I'm not the developer. I just want this feature badly in Gnome Fedora.
rickyzhang
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Posted December 18th, 2016 17:00
libinput has already capture 1,2,3,4 finger event. The root of problem is in Wayland compositor doesn't subscribe the event and make action. It is like Google fiber is in town. But the last 200 feet is not hooked up.
Pay for the bounty. Hope for the best. Linux can never dominate desktop because of no corporation financial support. Pay bounty should motivate them.
David Dufresne
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Posted December 18th, 2016 19:00
i am sorry but I am totally new on Linux.. what libinput is ?
Thank you !
rickyzhang
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Posted December 19th, 2016 10:00
I'm a Fedora guy. The latest Fedora 25 uses Wayland. It supports 4 finger swipe to switch workspace in Gnome. But there is no action/customization for 3 fingers gesture.
I run libinput-debug-events and I can see 1/2/3/4 finger gesture event has been generated by libinput. But Wayland doesn't have good support that them. TBH, I don't know too much about Wayland. See de.wikipedia.org/.../Libinput
David Dufresne
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Posted January 3rd, 2017 15:00
rickyzhang
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Posted January 6th, 2017 03:00
It works but not great.
libinput in wayland does capture 3 finger gesture. The problem is that wayland didn't react. I'm not sure in ubuntu unity. Does it support 3 finger drag?
chrisvigelius
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Posted January 15th, 2017 10:00
After blacklisting psmouse module touch gestures (and palm detection!) work just fine on Ubuntu 16.04 / Unity 7. A list of supported gestures can be found here. However, I could not yet figure out how to emulate middle click.
David Dufresne
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Posted December 18th, 2016 15:00
Same here!
I'd like to configure my touchpad for the multi gestures thins (3, 4 fingers).
Only the 2 fingers works.
Thank you !