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. libinput-gestures) or talking to systemd's logind, becoming its exclusive session controller and have it hand over open fds to those (e.g. mutter [and only on wayland?]).
The former raises security concerns and the latter seems like a lot of initial (logind) and followup (passing on events/access) work, quite constraining (only one session controller) and DE(desktop envionment)-specific to me (e.g. How does a KDE program see gestures when running in a Gnome session where mutter is (maybe) passing them as GTK signals?). So I'm wondering: Are there any plans to deliver them as X events e.g. via XInput2 or any reasons why that would be a bad idea[tm]? I've done a bit of hacking of xf86-input-libinput, xorgproto, libxi and xserver on a rainy afternoon and can now receive newly created swipe XInput2 events - admittedly without any coordinates because I've yet to understand the X server's valuator magic. Though it can obviously be done I'm just wondering if it'd be worthwile spending any more thought on. -- Thanks, Michael _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: https://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: %(user_address)s
