Touchpad gesture events via XInput2?

2019-09-10 Thread Michael Weiser
Hello, I've been looking into the current state of affairs regarding touchpad gestures such as swipe and pinch on Linux as an end user. Everybody wanting to support them seems to be talking to libinput directly, either necessitating the user having access to the input device nodes directly (e.g. l

Questions on pointer barrier behaviour

2019-09-10 Thread Michael Weiser
Hello, I've written a small X client that detects when the pointer hits a screen edge in order to trigger actions based on where the edge was hit - the classic hot corner use case. The trigger for doing this yet again was that all the tools I looked at either polled the pointer position or subscri

Re: Questions on pointer barrier behaviour

2019-09-10 Thread The Rasterman
On Tue, 10 Sep 2019 21:49:51 +0200 Michael Weiser said: > Hello, > > I've written a small X client that detects when the pointer hits a > screen edge in order to trigger actions based on where the edge was hit > - the classic hot corner use case. The trigger for doing this yet again > was that a

Re: Touchpad gesture events via XInput2?

2019-09-10 Thread Peter Hutterer
On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 09:51:47PM +0200, Michael Weiser wrote: > Hello, > > I've been looking into the current state of affairs regarding touchpad > gestures such as swipe and pinch on Linux as an end user. Everybody > wanting to support them seems to be talking to libinput directly, either > nec

Re: Questions on pointer barrier behaviour

2019-09-10 Thread Peter Hutterer
On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 09:49:51PM +0200, Michael Weiser wrote: > Hello, > > I've written a small X client that detects when the pointer hits a > screen edge in order to trigger actions based on where the edge was hit > - the classic hot corner use case. The trigger for doing this yet again > was