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Hi,
With the new gnome 3.18, they introduce a "touch selection" that replace the standard selection mechanism.
I would like to deactivate that because I find it very unpractical on a desktop computer, at least with gedit.
But I cant find any option for that.
Any idea where I can find it (I really hope this is optional)
Thanks
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I don't have the same problem on an another computer.
The main difference between the two of them being that the one with the problem is running as a vmware guest under an ubuntu host.
After some looking, I tried deactivate touchscreen abilities on vmware, but it changed nothing.
Any ideas ?
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I'm continuing my research.
I'm now convince that this is due to vmware.
The mouse input is indeed detected as a touchscreen:
(--) evdev: VirtualPS/2 VMware VMMouse: Found absolute axes
(--) evdev: VirtualPS/2 VMware VMMouse: Found x and y absolute axes
(--) evdev: VirtualPS/2 VMware VMMouse: Found absolute touchscreen
(II) evdev: VirtualPS/2 VMware VMMouse: Configuring as touchscreen
xinput list give me multiple mouses
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ VMware VMware Virtual USB Mouse id=7 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ VirtualPS/2 VMware VMMouse id=9 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ VirtualPS/2 VMware VMMouse id=10 [slave pointer (2)]
the last one being the only one with absolute axes
but if I deactivate it, I get no mouse anymore (so why is there other devices ?)
And if I set it to RELATIVE, it completely unusable.
Does any one know to use relative pointer with vmware ?
Or to force gnome to ignore the presence of a touchscreen ?
EDIT : at least I have now a "workaround"
I can set it to relative before launching gedit and set it bake to absolute afterward
gedit will stay in the normal mode.
If someone want to know how change the mode of the input, I'm using :
xinput --set-mode 10 RELATIVE
and
xinput --set-mode 10 ABSOLUTE
Last edited by pums974 (2015-11-25 08:51:59)
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