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Touchscreen is being recognized as a mouse in Arch Linux--how can I enable multi-touch with it and get it recognized as a touch screen?

I have a Lenovo Yoga 2 11" convertible laptop, and it has a touch screen that xinput tells me is: > xinput list ⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)] ⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave…
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How to calibrate touch screen on Ubuntu 22.04?

We have a box connecting to a 20" vertical touch screen. When running Ubuntu 20.04 which runs X.org we used xinput_calibrator to calibrate the touch screen since it is vertical. However in Ubuntu 22.04 it by default runs Xwayland (which we found a…
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Hot to disable 3 finger tap (Libinput)

I want to disable the paste action associated with the 3 finger tapping because it is not a behavior helpful for me and also somehow dangerous. Most of the post (for ex. this one) report either to: add TappingButtonMap to xorg.conf ( this option…
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Libinput 3 finger gestures

As I want to get 3-finger (or even 4-finger) gestures running under Gnome (Fedora 25, Xorg), I've installed the libinput drivers and libinput-gestures (https://github.com/bulletmark/libinput-gestures). When trying to debug why 3-finger swipes aren't…
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manipulate multiple windows simultaneously

this is probably a long shot but I've been pondering it for a while. I realize that the actual use-cases of this sort of interaction are quite sparse. The main uses I can think of would be moving multiple windows around at the same…
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Multi-touch gestures in GNOME 3.14

I'm trying out the GNOME 3.14 live ISO and I would like to test multi touch gestures as well as Wayland session. The promotional video shows multitouch gestures to zoom in and out, show the overwiev, switch workspaces etc. I've tried them but…
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Ubuntu 18.04 with Multi-touch screen can't single click

The problem I have is that my touchscreen registers 2-3 mouse clicks per second when I tap the screen. It continues registering clicks if you hold your finger down. Rather than producing a single touch_down event, it produces a touch_down and…
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multi-touch gestures on Thinkpad T61

I'm currently running elementaryOS Freya on my Thinkpad T61 and want to use multi-touch gestures. Out of the box I can use 2-finger swipes for scrolling (although it works rather badly with this OS). $ grep "TouchPad: buttons:"…
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Deactivate the new native gesture support in GNOME 3.14

The new version 3.14 of the GNOME desktop now supports multitouch gestures natively. (see e.g. Multi-touch gestures in GNOME 3.14) How can I deactivate this feature? I would like to continue using my touchegg setup, where I can customize and assign…
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Debian on MacBook Pro 11,4 (15" Retina) - TouchPad and WiFi

Thanks for reading this. I have a mid 2015 MacBook Pro, 15" Retina, the 11,4 model. I installed Debian Jessie, running kernel 3.16, on an external hard-drive and can boot into it. I only have two problems: I can use the mouse fine to point and click…
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Configuring touch screen monitor

My brother recently bought a touch screen monitor Dell S2240T, I connected it to my laptop using HDMI interface. I'm using OpenSuse 13.2 with latest stable KDE4. Initially monitor display looks blurred, after manually setting monitor frequency to…
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Too many touchpads recognized: touchpad does not work

I just bought a new Dell Inspiron 7347 for my mother. It is supported officially by Ubuntu 12.04 LTS so I guessed that Linux would go nicely on it. Well. I installed Mint 17 KDE (based on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS), which comes with kernel 3.13.0. The…
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Propagate multi touch events to applications

My aim is to use standard libraries to recognize gestures and use those events with Java 8. I know there is a gesture recognition stack for Ubuntu (grail, geis), but I didn’t understand yet, how to bring it all together. I'm using an eGalaxTouch…
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Simulate touch manipulation on Linux

I'd like to test how well my Linux app works on Linux-based touch devices. Unfortunately, I don't have such a device, which is why I'd like to find a way to simulate touch gestures on a standard laptop. Is there a way to do that? How?
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Draw with multiple fingers/styluses simultaneously on a touchscreen

I have a large touchscreen display that I would like to use for drawing with either my fingers or/and styluses. I can do this perfectly fine under Android, multiple people can use the display at the same time, drawing at different areas. However,…
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