<html> <head> <base href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/" /> </head> <body><a class="email" href="mailto:peter.hutterer@who-t.net" title="Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>"> Peter Hutterer</a> changed <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_RESOLVED bz_closed" title="RESOLVED WONTFIX - Allow switching clickfinger right and middle-click" href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90204">bug 90204</a> <table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="8"> <tr> <th>What</th> <th>Removed</th> <th>Added</th> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:right;">Status</td> <td>NEW </td> <td>RESOLVED </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:right;">CC</td> <td> </td> <td>peter.hutterer@who-t.net </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:right;">Resolution</td> <td>--- </td> <td>WONTFIX </td> </tr></table> <div> <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_RESOLVED bz_closed" title="RESOLVED WONTFIX - Allow switching clickfinger right and middle-click" href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90204#c1">Comment # 1</a> on <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_RESOLVED bz_closed" title="RESOLVED WONTFIX - Allow switching clickfinger right and middle-click" href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90204">bug 90204</a> from <a class="email" href="mailto:peter.hutterer@who-t.net" title="Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>"> Peter Hutterer</a> <pre>simple answers first: (In reply to Laurentiu Nicola from <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=90204#c0">comment #0</a>) > [2] If holding one finger over the button area and sliding another downwards > to the bottom, only the original finger seems to taken into account on a > click. Of course, one may argue that doing this is useless because it will > also move the cursor. yeah, that's intentional behaviour. Some touchpads are too small to disallow movement into the button area so we only count fingers as "on the button" if they start in that area. > [3] xinput list only gives me an "xwayland-pointer", which doesn't have any > settings for this. Perhaps I'm doing it wrong. On Xorg with > xf86-input-libinput the properties are there, but I have other issues [4]. yeah, xwayland only provides a single pointer device, it doesn't forward the devices 1:1 (because it doesn't have access to the device list, long story). > [4] Softbutton right-clicks are detected as left-clicks; it seems specific > to xf86-input-libinput, though. most likely a recent GNOME issue that defaults to clickfinger behaviour. Try gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad click-method 'areas' longer answer regarding your feature request: I don't have any plans of providing this remapping through a configuration option, simply because long-term it is not maintainable. any one of these configuration options doesn't hurt and can be justified easily, it's the combination of all of them that land us in a mess. It becomes un-testable and unpredictable in some cases too. we have two methods at the moment for triggering the middle button on touchpad devices: either by pressing left + right together (which works for both software buttons and physical buttons) or if you are in clickfinger mode with the three-finger click. three finger-click obviously because it's the least-common one of the left/right/middle click options. if we start mixing software buttons and clickfinger we run into a couple of situations where it's not clear what we should do or where the event we produce becomes unpredictable for the user. That's not something we want. And that's even aside from the issue of now having a combinatorial explosion of test-cases. so summary - no, we won't implement this, sorry.</pre> </div> <hr> You are receiving this mail because: <ul> <li>You are the assignee for the bug.</li> </ul> </body> </html>