Fedora on a x86 (AMD) Tablet - the good the bad and the ugly

[Ian Malone]

On 31 May 2013 03:06, Fernando Cassia <fcassia at gmail.com> wrote:

> 1. The Gnome 3.x "hitting the top-left corner" system works and seems
> designed with a mouse in mind, NOT touch. If I touch with the finger in the
> upper left corner of the screen, 99.1% of the time (rough estimate ;) ....
> NOTHING HAPPENS. That surely is because the "focus point"of the "hit" is too
> narrow for a finger. In other words, it's expecting the mouse pointer to be
> at 0x0 (or 1x1) pixel coordinate for a splt second before invoking the gnome
> screens. With a finger hit, surely one fat finger translates to coordinates
> 0-40 x to 0-40y.
>
> It doesn't matter if I just position the finger in the corner, or if I try
> to emulate the mouse action of doing a small travel with the finger and
> "hitting" the corner. It only works on about 1 in every 20 tries.
>
> So, how to fix this? how to make the "invocation area" bigger?
>

I don't use gnome anymore, but from what I remember you are able to
click on the activities button with a mouse, so you should be able to
tap it on a touchscreen instead of swiping if you want.

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