Bug 833502 - Evdev right click emulation don't work on touch screen
Summary: Evdev right click emulation don't work on touch screen
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: xorg-x11-drv-evdev
Version: 17
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Peter Hutterer
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-06-19 15:36 UTC by Iybego
Modified: 2012-06-20 01:32 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2012-06-20 01:32:43 UTC
Type: Bug
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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.


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