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I have a Synaptics touchpad that supports nearly everything, according to this, and I would like to configure it to get pinch zoom working. In Windows pinch zooming works, so it's not a hardware issue. How would I go about doing this? Ideally, I would like it to emulate Ctrl+scrolling, so it could work on Chromium and Gimp.
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Afaik it comes down to whether your window manager is set up for this. What wm are you using?
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I'm using dwm.
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I opened xev from a terminal to see what was reported when I tried a pinch and I kept getting different results from button 4-7. Evidently you need something like https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=46809 to get the correct gesture. Then you need to find/make a function in dwm to use it.
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I have never heard of this "touchegg" before, so I am unsure of what it does. But this is probably what you are looking for https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=41592 . There is also xf86-input-multitouch-git as well as xf86-input-mtrack-git. Do a search in the AUR for xf86-input
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I have never heard of this "touchegg" before, so I am unsure of what it does. But this is probably what you are looking for https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=41592 . There is also xf86-input-multitouch-git as well as xf86-input-mtrack-git. Do a search in the AUR for xf86-input
Those are the X (low-level) touchpad drivers, but an application (window manager or standalone) is also needed to translate gestures to actions/commands.
- Touchegg is a QT program
- Easystroke is a GTK-program
Both pull in huge amounts of dependencies (100-200MB) to do something quite simple, so they are generally not what you want when using DWM.
The most simple solution i have come across is this Perl approach:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opens … index.html
Which is more or less a proof-of-concept, it uses a high-res timer module from CPAN for accuracy. I haven't tried it myself so i don't know how well it works, but it probably requires more work since it doesn't have a spiffy UI with settings but is a hardcoded script.
Ideally you'd want a really simple/small utility that lets you map context-aware gestures to commands. For instance:
[Window: Chromium] 2-finger swipe-left == Mod1-arrowleft
[Window: generic] 3-finger swipe-up == exec dmenu_run
Last edited by litemotiv (2012-10-03 09:03:39)
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