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Moviuro

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Registered: 2012-06-03

Posts: 74

Apple Magic Mouse: Multitouch?

Hi all!

Since I bought my Magic Mouse, I'm starving to use its multitouch functions but never succeeded -I don't even know if it is possible. I tried on Mandriva (2010.1, 2010.2), openSUSE (11.4 & 12.1) and now I'm on archlinux.
Pointer, clicking (left, right, middle) works out of the box, as scrolling does (vertical & horizontal).
On OSX (the OS it was designed for), two fingers movements are supported (swipe & pinch). Some Mac fans even succeeded to get the mouse recognize 3 & 4 fingers movements.

I'm asking here if :
-> multitouch is possible on Linux, using the Magic Mouse?
-> if yes, how can it be achieved? (I'm sick of searching through irrelevant topics in numberous forums)
-> if no, is there a kernel driver in developpement for it?

Thanks all

And since it is my first post here, I'll also thank the whole community who provides archlinux, which is the best distro I ever used ^_^
http://www.apple.com/magicmouse/

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From: Holsworthy, Devon

Registered: 2011-12-31

Posts: 252

Re: Apple Magic Mouse: Multitouch?

Have a look in the AUR repository there's plenty of multitouch features here:

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php? … _Search=Go

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