How to get position of fingers on touchpad
I want to develop a program which would be able to make use of absolute position of fingers on a touchpad to define custom in-app gestures. I've read that using raw data from evdev is a really bad idea as there are many hardware-specific quirks that I'd need to handle and I'd end up rewriting libinput.
I would like to get events like touch begin, touch end, touch move for individual fingers, each event including absolute position and ideally pressure of the touch.
So is there a way to get this information from libinput? And possibly temporarily disable the default behavior of touchpad during the custom gesture, so that I don't accidentally collide ie. with a gesture to switch workspaces?
When I tried libinput debug-events and I got POINTER_MOTION, POINTER_AXIS and GESTURE_PINCH_* events, but without positions of individual fingers. I could definitely use evdev but I don't really want to reinvent the weel.
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I want to develop a program which would be able to make use of absolute position of fingers on a touchpad to define custom in-app gestures. I've read that using raw data from evdev is a really bad idea as there are many hardware-specific quirks that I'd need to handle and I'd end up rewriting libinput.
I would like to get events like touch begin, touch end, touch move for individual fingers, each event including absolute position and ideally pressure of the touch.
So is there a way to get this information from libinput? And possibly temporarily disable the default behavior of touchpad during the custom gesture, so that I don't accidentally collide ie. with a gesture to switch workspaces?
When I tried libinput debug-events and I got POINTER_MOTION, POINTER_AXIS and GESTURE_PINCH_* events, but without positions of individual fingers. I could definitely use evdev but I don't really want to reinvent the weel.
touchpad input libinput
asked Jan 6 at 17:48
m93am93a
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add a comment |
I want to develop a program which would be able to make use of absolute position of fingers on a touchpad to define custom in-app gestures. I've read that using raw data from evdev is a really bad idea as there are many hardware-specific quirks that I'd need to handle and I'd end up rewriting libinput.
I would like to get events like touch begin, touch end, touch move for individual fingers, each event including absolute position and ideally pressure of the touch.
So is there a way to get this information from libinput? And possibly temporarily disable the default behavior of touchpad during the custom gesture, so that I don't accidentally collide ie. with a gesture to switch workspaces?
When I tried libinput debug-events and I got POINTER_MOTION, POINTER_AXIS and GESTURE_PINCH_* events, but without positions of individual fingers. I could definitely use evdev but I don't really want to reinvent the weel.
touchpad input libinput
asked Jan 6 at 17:48
m93am93a
1064
I want to develop a program which would be able to make use of absolute position of fingers on a touchpad to define custom in-app gestures. I've read that using raw data from evdev is a really bad idea as there are many hardware-specific quirks that I'd need to handle and I'd end up rewriting libinput.
I would like to get events like touch begin, touch end, touch move for individual fingers, each event including absolute position and ideally pressure of the touch.
So is there a way to get this information from libinput? And possibly temporarily disable the default behavior of touchpad during the custom gesture, so that I don't accidentally collide ie. with a gesture to switch workspaces?
When I tried libinput debug-events and I got POINTER_MOTION, POINTER_AXIS and GESTURE_PINCH_* events, but without positions of individual fingers. I could definitely use evdev but I don't really want to reinvent the weel.
touchpad input libinput
touchpad input libinput
asked Jan 6 at 17:48
m93am93a
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asked Jan 6 at 17:48
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