Bug 833502

Summary:	Evdev right click emulation don't work on touch screen
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Iybego <iybego>
Component:	xorg-x11-drv-evdev	Assignee:	Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	17	CC:	peter.hutterer, xgl-maint
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Description Iybego 2012-06-19 15:36:01 UTC

Description of problem:
Evdev right-click emulation don't work only on touchscreen, e.g. emulation works well on mouse. 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-3.4.2-4.fc17.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-evdev-2.7.0.fc17.x86_64

How reproducible:
Enable "Evdev Third Button Emulation", and try to do right click on touchscreen by holding finger.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Peter Hutterer 2012-06-20 01:32:43 UTC

this is actually intended. for true multitouch screens we don't do gesture interpretation in the driver and leave it up to the client stack to do so. this of course leaves us with a gap until the clients all support it properly, but the alternative is a mess (as the synaptics driver shows). sorry.