A large number of users run the GNOME desktop which has its own gesture
engine that performs actions on touchscreens. These gestures are much
better than the ones we provide, so lets disable our engine by default
for touchscreens. Note that GNOME doesn't do anything with touchpad
gestures, so we leave them enabled by default.
Note that this change will effectively cause a feature regression for
users of other environments that do *not* have their own gesture
engines (Cinnamon, KDE, MATE, XFCE, etc.). Users will want to add an
xorg.conf.d snippet with `Option "Gesture" "on"` to bring back the
functionality.
Signed-off-by: Jason Gerecke <email address hidden>
I tried the upstream patch on xserver- xorg-input- wacom 1:0.36.1-0ubuntu1 on 18.04, this issue is fixed.
commit 31a5405f7d9405b c51458570916128 7b0c67386e
Author: Jason Gerecke <email address hidden>
Date: Mon Sep 9 15:32:17 2019 -0700
Change default gesture mode: touchpad=on, touchscreen=off
A large number of users run the GNOME desktop which has its own gesture
engine that performs actions on touchscreens. These gestures are much
better than the ones we provide, so lets disable our engine by default
for touchscreens. Note that GNOME doesn't do anything with touchpad
gestures, so we leave them enabled by default.
Note that this change will effectively cause a feature regression for
users of other environments that do *not* have their own gesture
engines (Cinnamon, KDE, MATE, XFCE, etc.). Users will want to add an
xorg.conf.d snippet with `Option "Gesture" "on"` to bring back the
functionality.
Signed-off-by: Jason Gerecke <email address hidden>