I can operate the full gnome desktop with a mouse, the touchpad, and a digitizer pen. I can operate all applications with fingers. However, I cannot operate the gnome shell using fingers. When I tap on for example "Activities", the battery icon or a close button in a window title bar, that item gets highlighted, but nothing else happens. On Fedora 18, I could operate the shell with fingers too.
I cannot see any difference in the generated ButtonPress and ButtonRelease events (using xev) with the mouse or the finger. The only difference is that finger motion cannot be tracked without button press, i.e. the MotionNotify events are missing from the finger.
What is happening here? How can I get the shell to accept finger input too?
Tom
On 2013-07-04 3:04, Thomas Sailer wrote:
I can operate the full gnome desktop with a mouse, the touchpad, and a digitizer pen. I can operate all applications with fingers. However, I cannot operate the gnome shell using fingers. When I tap on for example "Activities", the battery icon or a close button in a window title bar, that item gets highlighted, but nothing else happens. On Fedora 18, I could operate the shell with fingers too.
I cannot see any difference in the generated ButtonPress and ButtonRelease events (using xev) with the mouse or the finger. The only difference is that finger motion cannot be tracked without button press, i.e. the MotionNotify events are missing from the finger.
What is happening here? How can I get the shell to accept finger input too?
But...but...Shell is for tablets! Everyone knows that! The internets told me so!
On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 12:04 PM, Thomas Sailer sailer@sailer.dynip.lugs.ch wrote:
What is happening here? How can I get the shell to accept finger input too?
It is fallout from the port to XInput2, see https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=697192.
On 07/05/2013 12:10 AM, Florian Müllner wrote:
It is fallout from the port to XInput2, see https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=697192.
Oh thanks a lot, I've applied Anthony's patch and it's now _much_ better. The only thing that still doesn't work reliably for me is moving windows by tapping on the titlebar and drag them around.
Do you intend to push a fixed gnome-shell once an officially sanctioned patch exists? Or possibly even Anthony's patch as interim solution?
Thanks, Tom
On 07/04/2013 12:04 PM, Thomas Sailer wrote:
I can operate the full gnome desktop with a mouse, the touchpad, and a digitizer pen. I can operate all applications with fingers. However, I cannot operate the gnome shell using fingers. When I tap on for example "Activities", the battery icon or a close button in a window title bar, that item gets highlighted, but nothing else happens. On Fedora 18, I could operate the shell with fingers too.
Maybe you can try to do a swipe from the desktop (outside the activity button) towards the top left corner (passing through the activity button). The problem I can see now is that if you have a fullscreen application, this does not works :(
And for the battery icons and others, they used to only work while in the overview mode (it's a known bug, mentioned by Florian). However, I just gave it a try today, and it was working correctly.
Cheers, Benjamin
On Fri, 2013-07-05 at 10:52 +0200, Benjamin Tissoires wrote:
Maybe you can try to do a swipe from the desktop (outside the activity button) towards the top left corner (passing through the activity button).
I tried all sorts of swipes, including this one, and no, it didn't work, not even without a fullscreen application.
With Anthony's patch (uploaded to the gnome bug Florian pointed me at), it works again for me
Thanks, Tom