[Wayland-bugs] [Bug 101299] Touchpad multitouch (Synaptics / touchegg + libinput / libinput gestures) not working, but should be capable according to device props

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101299

--- Comment #5 from nokodemus86 at gmail.com ---
(In reply to Peter Hutterer from comment #3)
> libinput is a library, it can be either used by the wayland compositor or by
> the xf86-input-libinput driver. Or commandline tools. Right now, all major
> compositors use libinput to process input events. Synaptics is an xorg
> driver alone, it sits next to xf86-input-libinput and the two are mutually
> exclusive, you have to pick one of the two for your touchpad device.

Ahh ... thank you for clarification. i think i'm starting to understand ... 

> oops, that is indeed a bug. Please record a gesture that triggers that bug
> with sudo evemu-record and attach the output in a separate bug (as
> attachment, not as comment).

Thanks for the hint. I created the outputs and attached them to a new bug:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101327

> 
> libinput only interprets and forwards the gestures, it doesn't actually
> handle them or convert them to semantic events. That's something that's up
> to the compositor (for global gestures) or the client/toolkit for local
> gestures. But - no chance of that happening in X, the bits in between are
> simply missing, sorry. It's a Wayland-only feature.

Alright, i understand ... thank you for clarifying :-)

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