Re: tablet touchscreen configuration

[dmg <dmg uvic ca>]

Hi Bruce,

I wish there was.

I co-maintain xournal, and we have been struggling with moving to gtk3
for a while (deprecated libraries, performance issues). I am sure
that we can share some of the knowledge we have with others, and viceversa,

One (or maybe two) questions I posted some time ago regarding
touchscreens were unanswered in this list.

--dmg

On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 9:35 PM, Bruce Perens <bruce perens com> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> Is there a mailing list for tablet issues or tablet developers? I didn't see one. Indeed the mailing lists 
> that aren't for developers seem to be for specific applications rather than the system itself. So, please 
> forgive me if this is misplaced.
>
> I've set up Gnome 3 from Debian unstable on a Panasonic Toughpad FZ-G1. This has two sensor surfaces on the 
> screen: a stylus that is or emulates a Wacom, and an eGalaxy Touch which is a multitouch finger 
> touchscreen. Both are using evdev, the eGalaxy also has mtdev. Kernel is 3.14 .
>
> If anyone has tested this device with Gnome or indeed Linux, there isn't any web evidence. It works, with a 
> few little issues that I am now running down.
>
> The Wacom works correctly. The eGalaxy Touch mostly works, but something is different about the button 
> events. On the screen keyboard, the buttons highlight when I touch them but they don't act as if they've 
> been pressed. This also happens on all of the shell panel buttons. But finger-touch on a dock icon 
> correctly launches the program.
>
> In xev, button press and release events look identical between the two devices.
>
> Nice to see that Gnome 3 is mostly usable on tablets. I can probably test multitouch when I get through 
> this issue.
>
>     Thanks
>
>     Bruce
>
>
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