On Sun, Jun 01, 2014 at 11:38:02PM +0100, José Expósito wrote: > Hi Daniel, > > I'm asking because I'm the author of this tool: > https://code.google.com/p/touchegg/ > > That is exactly what you mention but for X11. So I'd like to port it to > Wayland if it is possible of course. > > > The intention was to reserve trackpad > > gestures for a gesture interpreter > > which lives in the compositor and is > > properly integrated with, e.g., scrolling > > and tap-to-click. > > Does this mean that it is possible to get multi touch gestures in the > compositor at the moment? > Will or is it possible to use both approach? I mean, get system gestures in > the compositor and app specified gestures in the clients, like in OS X.
the input stack in weston atm is that you get touch events from a direct-touch MT device raw and unprocessed (save for mapping), but for touchpads some input events are interpreted by the stack (libinput or evdev-touchpad.c) and then passed on as pointer events, you don't see the MT bits of those. Cheers, Peter > Thank you very much! > El 01/06/2014 23:24, "Daniel Stone" <dan...@fooishbar.org> escribió: > > > Hi, > > > > > > On 1 June 2014 02:03, José Expósito <jose.exposit...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> And I say more or less because it is necessary to put 3 fingers on the > >> trackpad to start moving the rectangles... > >> Anyway, the program is not working on Weston. My question is, is that > >> because Weston doesn't implement multitouch support or because Wayland > >> doesn't support it at the moment? Could it be possible to implement > >> multitouch support in a custom compositor? > >> > > > > Wayland doesn't (currently) support touchpad gestures for arbitrary > > clients; trying to do it for X11 uncovered a whole host of really subtle > > and annoying issues. The intention was to reserve trackpad gestures for a > > gesture interpreter which lives in the compositor and is properly > > integrated with, e.g., scrolling and tap-to-click. > > > > Can I ask if you had a specific usecase in mind? > > > > Cheers, > > Daniel > > > _______________________________________________ > wayland-devel mailing list > wayland-devel@lists.freedesktop.org > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel _______________________________________________ wayland-devel mailing list wayland-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel