Yet another MacBook Pro touchpad driver support thread (regarding KDE)

manuelschneid3r · 2013-12-23 14:13:23

Hi

I recently bought a MBP Retina 13" Late 2013, just because this masterpiece of hardware has the best price-performance ratio in this price segment. OS X sucks, because developing on it in a scientific way is a pain. GTest with c++11 problems, curious compiler, no (gnu) g++, no sophisticated vim etc etc ... I just wanna get back to bleeding edge software and pacman. Theres just one thing: I dont want to pay 1500 € for kickass hardware, when I cant use it. So I want to ask what's the recent state of the touchpad support of linux. I wish to have those features with KDE:

- 3 finger swipe to change desktops
- normal 2 finger swipe support to scroll vertically
- eventually horizontal 2 finger swipe to move backward and forward (filebrowser/webbrowser)
- 2 finger pinch to zoom
- 3 or 4 finger pinch to make cool things like expose, which kde has
- Don't care about rotation stuff

Basically most of this would be manageable, if I could convince KWin to recognize those gesture. How far goes current driver support to realize those things genrally? Are all those things like swipe in from edges, pinch/swipe horiz./swipe vert. with 2, 3 and 4 fingers supported and further how are they handled/given to X?

Regards, Manuel

Last edited by manuelschneid3r (2013-12-23 14:18:18)

Labello · 2013-12-23 19:46:21

I have no solution to any of your questions, but I am also very interested in their answers. I hope someone can shed some light on this issue or _real_ multitouch on linux in general.

Arch Linux

#1 2013-12-23 14:13:23

Yet another MacBook Pro touchpad driver support thread (regarding KDE)

#2 2013-12-23 19:46:21

Re: Yet another MacBook Pro touchpad driver support thread (regarding KDE)

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