On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 11:43:51AM +0000, Harry Mallon wrote: > Hi Peter, > > Thanks for getting back. > > I have had a look into the implementation of 3rd button emulation this > morning. If this feature were to be extended to touch points would you > recommend altering xf86-input-evdev to not filter out touch events or > should this option be lower down the stack? It seems xorg is responsible > for emulating a pointer based on touches so should it be responsible for > emulating clicks (buttons 1, 2 or 3)?
simply said - no. touch->pointer emulation in X is already terrible and putting right click emulation on top of this would make things even more unmanagable. touch gesture interpretation should be done by the client and that includes right-click emulation. Cheers, Peter > On 16 Jun 2016, at 03:29, Peter Hutterer > <peter.hutte...@who-t.net<mailto:peter.hutte...@who-t.net>> wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 03:32:40PM +0000, Harry Mallon wrote: > Hi all, > > I am trying to get my PenMount PM1300A touchscreen to accept hold to right > click (Evdev Third Button Emulation) on CentOS7. Kernel > 3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64. xorg-x11-drv-evdev 2.9.2. > > see https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=96494, this only just came > up as a bug. > > short answer: it's a touchscreen that doesn't emulate a left button click, > so evdev won't reassign the button. > > Cheers, > Peter > > > My /etc/X11/xorg.conf contains: > # Setup the touch screen > Section "InputClass" > Identifier "PenMount Touchscreen" > MatchVendor "PenMount" > MatchProduct "PenMount PM1300A" > Driver "evdev" > Option "InvertX" "on" > Option "InvertY" "on" > Option "EmulateThirdButton" "on" > EndSection > > xinput reports: > $ DISPLAY=:0 xinput list-props 13 > Device 'PenMount PM1300A': > Device Enabled (136): 1 > Coordinate Transformation Matrix (138): 1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, > 0.000000, 1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 1.000000 > Device Accel Profile (257): 0 > Device Accel Constant Deceleration (258): 1.000000 > Device Accel Adaptive Deceleration (259): 1.000000 > Device Accel Velocity Scaling (260): 10.000000 > Device Product ID (263): 5345, 13568 > Device Node (264): "/dev/input/event6" > Evdev Axis Inversion (273): 1, 1 > Evdev Axis Calibration (274): <no items> > Evdev Axes Swap (275): 0 > Axis Labels (276): "Abs MT Position X" (291), "Abs MT Position Y" (292), > "None" (0), "None" (0) > Button Labels (277): "Button Unknown" (266), "Button Unknown" (266), "Button > Unknown" (266), "Button Wheel Up" (142), "Button Wheel Down" (143) > Evdev Scrolling Distance (278): 0, 0, 0 > Evdev Middle Button Emulation (279): 0 > Evdev Middle Button Timeout (280): 50 > Evdev Third Button Emulation (281): 1 > Evdev Third Button Emulation Timeout (282): 1000 > Evdev Third Button Emulation Button (283): 3 > Evdev Third Button Emulation Threshold (284): 20 > Evdev Wheel Emulation (285): 0 > Evdev Wheel Emulation Axes (286): 0, 0, 4, 5 > Evdev Wheel Emulation Inertia (287): 10 > Evdev Wheel Emulation Timeout (288): 200 > Evdev Wheel Emulation Button (289): 4 > Evdev Drag Lock Buttons (290): 0 > > $ DISPLAY=:0 xinput test-xi2 13 > PenMount PM1300A id=13 [slave pointer (2)] > Reporting 4 classes: > Class originated from: 13. Type: XIButtonClass > Buttons supported: 5 > Button labels: "Button Unknown" "Button Unknown" "Button Unknown" "Button > Wheel Up" "Button Wheel Down" > Button state: > Class originated from: 13. Type: XIValuatorClass > Detail for Valuator 0: > Label: Abs MT Position X > Range: 0.000000 - 2047.000000 > Resolution: 0 units/m > Mode: absolute > Current value: 1443.000000 > Class originated from: 13. Type: XIValuatorClass > Detail for Valuator 1: > Label: Abs MT Position Y > Range: 0.000000 - 2047.000000 > Resolution: 0 units/m > Mode: absolute > Current value: 240.000000 > Class originated from: 13. Type: XITouchClass > Touch mode: direct > Max number of touches: 10 > > I have tested with a usb mouse and I can successfully get "Button 3" working > in xinput test when using a similar configuration, but not the touchscreen. > > I have seen a couple of bugs like this while searching but they all seem to > have expired without clearly being fixed. 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