I have defeated Wayland!

[Tom Horsley]

https://tomhorsley.com/hardware/mouse-tailor/mouse-tailor.html

My latest silly project adds all the mouse settings to microcode
outside of the operating system so my trackball can be useful
when I'm forced to use Wayland (which seems to have utterly discarded
any useful mouse settings once available under X11).

[William Oliver]

On Mon, 2022-01-03 at 14:43 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote:
> https://tomhorsley.com/hardware/mouse-tailor/mouse-tailor.html
>
> My latest silly project adds all the mouse settings to microcode
> outside of the operating system so my trackball can be useful
> when I'm forced to use Wayland (which seems to have utterly discarded
> any useful mouse settings once available under X11).

That's actually very cool.

billo

[stan]

On Mon, 3 Jan 2022 14:43:35 -0500
Tom Horsley  wrote:
> https://tomhorsley.com/hardware/mouse-tailor/mouse-tailor.html
>
> My latest silly project adds all the mouse settings to microcode
> outside of the operating system so my trackball can be useful
> when I'm forced to use Wayland (which seems to have utterly discarded
> any useful mouse settings once available under X11).

Thanks for posting this.  I doubt I'll implement it, but it was
interesting to read, and funt to share in your success.
Congratulations!  Now it is time for you to go to the venture
capitalists, and fund your startup, so you can sell your 'Mouse
Emancipator' online. :-)

[Philip Rhoades]

Tom,

On 2022-01-04 06:43, Tom Horsley wrote:
> https://tomhorsley.com/hardware/mouse-tailor/mouse-tailor.html
>
> My latest silly project adds all the mouse settings to microcode
> outside of the operating system so my trackball can be useful
> when I'm forced to use Wayland (which seems to have utterly discarded
> any useful mouse settings once available under X11).

Hmm - I switched to Wayland and Sway a little while ago on both the 
desktop and the ZenBook - I love the environment on the desktop but 
since I only occasionally use the ZenBook, I have just been putting up 
with the lack of double-tapping etc on the mousepad.  I used to 
routinely install this after an update:

xorg-x11-drv-synaptics-legacy-1.9.1-3.fc30.x86_64.rpm

Would what you have done fix my ZenBook issue?

Regards,

Phil.

[Grumpey]

> Hmm - I switched to Wayland and Sway a little while ago on both the
> desktop and the ZenBook - I love the environment on the desktop but
> since I only occasionally use the ZenBook, I have just been putting up
> with the lack of double-tapping etc on the mousepad.

Tap to click should be configurable.
https://github.com/swaywm/sway/wiki#libinput-config-options

Or am I missing something?

[Philip Rhoades]

Grumpey,

On 2022-01-04 23:24, Grumpey wrote:
> > Hmm - I switched to Wayland and Sway a little while ago on both the
> > desktop and the ZenBook - I love the environment on the desktop but
> > since I only occasionally use the ZenBook, I have just been putting
> > up
> > with the lack of double-tapping etc on the mousepad.
>
> Tap to click should be configurable.
>
> https://github.com/swaywm/sway/wiki#libinput-config-options
>
> Or am I missing something?

I will check that out . .

Thanks!

P.

[Tom Horsley]

On Tue, 04 Jan 2022 21:37:39 +1100
Philip Rhoades via users wrote:
> Would what you have done fix my ZenBook issue?

Don't see how since the mousepad is built in to the hardware.
My gadget works by sitting between the mouse and the computer,
but with a laptop or tablet there is no place for a "between".

[Philip Rhoades]

Tom,

On 2022-01-04 23:58, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Tue, 04 Jan 2022 21:37:39 +1100
> Philip Rhoades via users wrote:
> > Would what you have done fix my ZenBook issue?
>
> Don't see how since the mousepad is built in to the hardware.
> My gadget works by sitting between the mouse and the computer,
> but with a laptop or tablet there is no place for a "between".

Ah . . I misunderstood . .

Thanks,

P.

[George N. White III]

On Mon, 3 Jan 2022 at 15:44, Tom Horsley  wrote:
> https://tomhorsley.com/hardware/mouse-tailor/mouse-tailor.html
>
> My latest silly project adds all the mouse settings to microcode
> outside of the operating system so my trackball can be useful
> when I'm forced to use Wayland (which seems to have utterly discarded
> any useful mouse settings once available under X11).

Drag lock is needed on ships at sea when things get rough, but for
trackpads.

Have you seen: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/1319:

Gnome now misses two libinput touchpad settings:

- tap button mapping
   - tap dragging lock

This commit enables those two features in mutter for both X11 and Wayland.

It has to be tested against this
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gsettings-desktop-schemas/-/merge_requests/36
merge request which includes the relative keys in gsettings.

[Tom Horsley]

On Wed, 5 Jan 2022 08:09:10 -0400
George N. White III wrote:
> This commit enables those two features in mutter for both X11 and Wayland.

It does make more sense for it to be in the software, especially for
laptops where there is no "between" to wedge the microcode, but I really
hope someone will come up with a standard library interface
all the compositors can use to get the same level of support
for input mappings, otherwise we'll just have duelling compositors
with different features.

The microcode was fun though (and it works now rather than someday :-).