OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/19960/Three-Finger_Your_Linux_Laptop_and_Pinch_it_too Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:42:09 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com Sweet! http://osnews.com/thread?321076 http://osnews.com/thread?321076 Can't wait to go home and see if my laptop can detect 3 fingers. I heard that it was hardware specific...I just assumed mine didn't have support because no Windows software that came with it supported multi-touch. Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:32:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (FunkyELF) Comments Running http://osnews.com/thread?321152 http://osnews.com/thread?321152 I tried it out on a Thinkpad T43 running Ubuntu 8.04. First, some install tips for those too lazy to Google:

sudo apt-get install tpconfig libxtst libxaw-headers libxtst-dev

download and follow instructions to compile and install X11:GUITest, and Time::HiRes linked in the resources section of the article (simple and quick so don't be lazy like I usually am with libraries that aren't in the repo's)

After this i was able to run the perl script fine.

Having successfully run it, it wasn't as exciting as I expected. First, of the two gestures (pinch and slide), only pinch worked for me. And not very reliably either.

The gesture that I really want to see is two finger scrolling. I occasionally use a mac laptop of a friends and it is the one thing I envy.

Most importantly, I think this is a great start and will make it easy for some motivated people (perhaps myself, if I find the time) to make this more reliable and add more features.

Edit: the three finger sweep works now, though like the pinch not very reliably. All of the gestures seems to work best if you accentuate their start and end.Edited 2008-07-03 05:26 UTC Thu, 03 Jul 2008 05:18:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (saucerful) Comments have a nice time http://osnews.com/thread?321167 http://osnews.com/thread?321167 i wonder whether you care of your health or not, people who care of their life all like to go Fitness Loving DO tCom to share their experience. that's the heaven of fitness singles and sports lovers. go http://www.fitnessloving.com to find your lover and enjoy together.
best wishes! Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:15:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (vanilla1988) Comments RE: Running http://osnews.com/thread?321179 http://osnews.com/thread?321179
The gesture that I really want to see is two finger scrolling. I occasionally use a mac laptop of a friends and it is the one thing I envy.

That option has been available in the standard Linux synaptics drivers for a while.

option "VertTwoFingerScroll" "1" Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:47:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (elliott1787) Comments RE[2]: Running http://osnews.com/thread?321188 http://osnews.com/thread?321188 Thanks, that works nicely! Weird, I would have expected this feature to be mentioned on more tutorials/forums/apple arguments.

Curious that the two finger scroll is picked up flawlessly but this implementation three finger swipe barely works... Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:56:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (saucerful) Comments RE[3]: Running http://osnews.com/thread?321197 http://osnews.com/thread?321197 I don't know why it isn't mentioned more. It was implemented in the 2006-06-04 release, according to the changelog, so it isn't exactly a new feature. The driver is much more customizable than people give it credit for, there is a long list of tunables available.

I guess if the effort was put in to add these swipe and pinch features to the driver, they would work much better than this perl hack. The synaptics driver doesn't seem to be too actively developed though, the current version is nearly 2 years old. Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:07:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (elliott1787) Comments RE: have a nice time http://osnews.com/thread?321202 http://osnews.com/thread?321202 can we ban this muppet ? Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:53:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (raver31) Comments