Comment 9 for bug 788980

Thanks for the info. So "instant gestures" and "click and hold" both deal only with the button, and actual gestures need to use "timeout". That does seem to work correctly with my touchscreen.

I should have been more observant. When you mentioned "documenting" above I started looking around, because there's no "Help" or "Documentation" link in the GUI. Sure enough, there's a man page, which I hadn't thought to check for a program that's basically all-GUI. Not much detail in the man page, but it does contain a link to the wiki. So for future googlers / careless folk like myself:

 http://easystroke.wiki.sourceforge.net/Documentation#content

While I've got you, is there a smoother way to implement a scroll gesture on a touchscreen than a standard "scroll" action? When I create one of those, I have to make the gesture, and then pause for a second / lift my finger so it will recognize the gesture, and then scroll up or down as a separate motion. What I'd prefer is to just drag my finger up and down with a single gesture and have the page move with it. Android does this, and the wacom driver has something like this built-in, but the wacom version is a little picky about the finger gesture involved and doesn't let you adjust the scroll speed the way easystroke seems to let you do.

I found this in the "Tips and Tricks" section of the wiki:

"If you don't have a scroll wheel, you can make easystroke emulate one by pressing a button and moving the cursor. Add the button as an additional button of type "instant gestures" as above, and record a new gesture by clicking the button, then change the action's type to "Scroll"."

The trouble is, this still seems to act like "gesture -> enter scroll mode -> do scrolling" when what I'm after is "gesture = immediately start scrolling". The scroll mode itself is exactly what I want, I just need a way to jump straight into it without that stuttering action.

Thanks again for the help!