[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 859474] Re: Dragging with touchpad unusable

2012-01-31 Thread Shaun Bouckaert
I have come across another situation in which the proposed solutions do not work. There are more than just dragging action that require the left mouse button to be held down. There's also the up and down arrows on scroll bars, or numerical input widgets with up and down arrows. To simulate holding

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 859474] Re: Dragging with touchpad unusable

2012-01-12 Thread Shaun Bouckaert
Although the solutions proposed to somewhat fix the problem, they don't do so very effectively. With just the SingleTapTimeout set to 360 click and drag is improved (although not fixed) however single taps get a noticeable delay (which is bearable). Enabling FastTaps seems to fix this for some

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 859474] Re: Dragging with touchpad unusable

2011-10-27 Thread Shaun Bouckaert
I'm also effected by this and it is not restricted to unity or gnome. I am having the same problem in xfce. As has been explained by Alti El at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-input- synaptics/+bug/874675 , the action to drag seems to have gone from (Tap)+(Press) to