Weston multitouch support?

Boyan Ding stu_dby at 126.com
Sat May 31 19:42:03 PDT 2014


If you're using weston-launch there may be a problem somewhere -- I'm
not an expert in that. But I know there're some backends (e.g. nested
wayland) which doesn't support touch at all at present.

On Sun, 2014-06-01 at 03:24 +0100, José Expósito wrote:
> Thank you for the quick answer.
> It happens if I run Weston as X client (weston command) or using
> weston-launch.
> 
> I'm not sure how can I check the backend...
> 
> El 01/06/2014 02:50, "Boyan Ding" <stu_dby at 126.com> escribió:
>         Which backend are you running on?
>         
>         On Sun, 2014-06-01 at 02:03 +0100, José Expósito wrote:
>         > Hi all,
>         >
>         >
>         > I'm running a very simple QML multitouch example using
>         > MultiPointTouchArea, that works (more or less) on X11, here
>         is the
>         > code:
>         >
>         >
>         >     Rectangle {
>         >         width: 400; height: 400
>         >         MultiPointTouchArea {
>         >             anchors.fill: parent
>         >             touchPoints: [ TouchPoint { id: point1 },
>         TouchPoint { id:
>         > point2 } ]
>         >         }
>         >         Rectangle { width: 30; height: 30; color: "green";
>          x:
>         > point1.x; y: point1.y }
>         >         Rectangle { width: 30; height: 30; color: "yellow";
>         x:
>         > point2.x; y: point2.y }
>         >     }
>         >
>         >
>         > And I say more or less because it is necessary to put 3
>         fingers on the
>         > trackpad to start moving the rectangles...
>         > Anyway, the program is not working on Weston. My question
>         is, is that
>         > because Weston doesn't implement multitouch support or
>         because Wayland
>         > doesn't support it at the moment? Could it be possible to
>         implement
>         > multitouch support in a custom compositor?
>         >
>         >
>         > This is my system information:
>         > Macbook Air 2011 (clickpack)
>         > Qt 5.3.0
>         > Latest QtWayland source code (1/Jun/2014)
>         > Weston 1.5.90
>         >
>         >
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