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I am using gnome 3.17.90 on XPS 13 2015 , arch linux. I tried use xf86-input-libinput. The touchpad works well as a mouse and for scrolling up and down.
I dont understand how can I make the multitouch for 3 and 4 fingers to work correctly. Zoom In ,Zoom Out...
I tried also with synaptic and the same problem.
Alon
Posted 2015-09-01T21:04:54.247
Reputation: 165
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Config: XPS 13 (9360) Antergos/Gnome
Mark Blakeney's libinput-gestures, available via AUR, is a simple and low friction solution that basically digests the output from libinput-debug-events, mapping gestures to configurable commands with sensible defaults. I lost hours trying other options without success but had this one up and running in minutes.
Poison Oak
Posted 2015-09-01T21:04:54.247
Reputation: 146
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The xf86-input-synaptics driver does not support multitouch (beyond two-finger-scroll).
While libinput supports MT in general, this is currently not yet exposed by the xf86 driver, since libinput exposes high-level gestures and not low-level individual touches, and there's no X11 extension for that yet – only Gtk3 on Wayland will recognize them.
(Also, currently libinput's gesture recognition is fairly limited...)
user1686
Posted 2015-09-01T21:04:54.247
Reputation: 283 655
so if I using gnome on wayland how can I achieve MT? – Alon – 2015-09-01T22:10:29.137
Exact same situation here. XPS 13 (2015), Arch Linux, Gnome 3.18 and libinput as input driver. Gnome is started in wayland mode, but still doesn't interpret any gestures. – sebastian – 2015-10-22T21:26:30.383
At the time of writing, this looks to only be able to emit boolean events, and at the end of the gesture. i.e. you can trigger a command at the end of a pinch {in|out}, but you can't have a pinch command that updates in realtime or that is dependent on the amount of pinch. That said, libinput-debug-events does expose that information, and Mark Blakeney's script does process these updates internally - it just doesn't expose them. – Ponkadoodle – 2017-01-03T00:52:08.263