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moshpirit

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Registered: 2016-01-13

Posts: 43

How to enable pinch to zoom?

Before I installed Arch yesterday, I got windows in this laptop. One of the things I checked was LibreOffice, and it surprised me that I could zoom in/out with the touchpad by just separating or joining together two fingers (pinch to zoom). I can't do that in Arch (I'm using Plasma, if it helps). Pin to zoom seems to work only on Inkscape, not on LibreOffice.
Edit: s/pinch/pin

Last edited by moshpirit (2023-02-19 15:38:16)

upl1nk3r

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Registered: 2023-02-23

Posts: 2

Re: How to enable pinch to zoom?

Functions like pinch to zoom depend on the hardware drivers. You can do an lspci to find out what model your touchpad is and then find drivers for it. You might also need to make some changes to the default Xorg config.

You should check the wiki for more info on it:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Laptop
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Libinput