On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 11:24:38PM -0500, Brandon Casey wrote: > On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 1:15 AM, Peter Hutterer > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 10:16:18PM -0500, Brandon Casey wrote: > > > Please let me know if this is the wrong place to post this message. > > > > > > For a long time now I have been missing the old method that I used to use > > to > > > highlight text, drag-and-drop, and move windows around. I used to be > > able > > > to produce a button press-and-hold by performing a double-tap and hold > > (tap > > > twice on touchpad, but leave the finger resting on the touchpad on the > > > second tap). But with recent distributions the last few years, that > > doesn't > > > work. Now, it seems, you have to double-tap, hold, and drag. > > > > > > Is there any way to re-enable the old double-tap-and-hold instead of the > > > double-tap-and-drag? > > > > this probably doesn't help but I've just tried it here and it worked fine. > > you can disable it by unsetting the Synaptics Gestures property but it is > > enabled by default. > > > > So, when you double-tap-and-hold on a window title bar, without moving > the mouse after the second tap (i.e. no "drag" gesture), your pointer grabs > the title bar and the mouse icon changes to indicate that?
tbh, I can't tap without moving, my touchpad is too sensible. it always moves by a few pixels at least. > Just to make sure you understood me (and I you), when I do the > above, nothing happens. It doesn't even produce an event in xev. if you're on the window bar, the event never goes to xev, it's captured by the WM. try doing it _inside_ the xev window, that should show events. > The double-tap-and-drag gesture does work, but for that one, you have > to drag your finger after the second tap (touch-release-touch-drag). > The Synaptics Gestures property controls this feature. If I disable it, > then it disables double-tap-and-drag, but it doesn't enable > double-tap-and-hold. You then have to use the > physical buttons. I can't remember any changes to this extent going into the driver. maybe it's a side-effect of other change but you'd have to look at the state machine in the driver where exactly the problem is now. > I would like to enable the tap-and-hold functionality, but I don't know > how to get it. Maybe there is an alternative touchpad driver other than > the synaptics one? If so, how do I disable the synaptics driver and just > use the standard one? there's only one touchpad driver. > I'm using fedora-15, and fedora 13 before it. What distribution are > you using? F15, but my X bits are the upstream ones. Cheers, Peter _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: [email protected]
