Re: Emacs, touchegg and touchpad events

["T.V Raman" <raman@google.com>]

Interesting.

Here is what I discovered next:

Start touchegg as a daemon via systemctl -- it starts happily and runs
but doesn't deliver events to emacs.

With that daemon running, start toucheg (as a client) from a shell in
emacs, it connects to the daemon, and magically emacs gets touchpad
events. So now I can scroll a buffer with a three-finger up/down swipe
-- not that is in itself much of a win.

The above i.e. run a touchegg client is not documented anywhere so I
suspect this may be a result of my running stumpwm perhaps.

Incidentally I looked through the emacs-29 touch code and it
essentially does not work for me on my laptop's touchpad; the only
event I can get emacs to see in that case (with no touchegg running)
is the touch-end event sporadically showing up. Pinch etc dont appear
to work.

Stefan Monnier writes:
 > > Note that I'm not running a pgtk build or wayland anytime soon.
 > 
 > I don't think Po Lu is talking about the PGTK port but about the good
 > old X11 version of Emacs talking to a new enough X11 server and compiled
 > with a new enough `xf86-input-libinput`.
 > 
 > 
 >         Stefan

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Thanks,

--Raman(I Search, I Find, I Misplace, I Research)
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Thanks,

--Raman(I Search, I Find, I Misplace, I Research)
♉ Id: kg:/m/0285kf1  🦮