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| the_hydra | hi guys | 13:57 |
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| the_hydra | if geistest command doesn't display anything, does that mean that my touchpad 100% can't do multitouch? | 13:58 |
| bregma | the_hydra, not necessarily | 14:16 |
| bregma | make sure you specify a windowid, otherwise you maybe getting a fail to grab the root window | 14:17 |
| bregma | also, run the geisview tool and see what devices it enumerates -- make sure you specify a windowid to avoid the root window grab probelm | 14:17 |
| the_hydra | bregma: so, I have to choose window other than the root window? | 14:18 |
| bregma | it guarantees you don;t have a problem grabbing the root window, which you may not be able to do | 14:19 |
| the_hydra | bregma: btw, I also test my touchpad in Unity (ubuntu 12.10), no gestures are recognized | 14:19 |
| bregma | I'm a little rusty, I think it's the -w option | 14:19 |
| the_hydra | bregma: so it's like e.g geistest -w 0xabc ? | 14:20 |
| bregma | it's possible your touchpad does not recognize more than 2 touches, that's very common | 14:20 |
| bregma | geistest -w 0xab yes, cut'n'paste the windowid from xwininfo | 14:20 |
| bregma | 'xinput list' should give you info about the input devices X is seeing, and that should allow you to dig down more as well | 14:21 |
| the_hydra | bregma: i'll test again when I have another spare time...btw, the recommended installation method AFAIK is by compiling the sorce, right? | 14:21 |
| bregma | installation of what? | 14:21 |
| the_hydra | bregma: oh sorry, touchegg | 14:21 |
| bregma | I believe the packaged version of touchegg in Ubuntu is not as recent as the upstream source in he google code repo | 14:22 |
| the_hydra | bregma: anyway, what am I suppose to see when geistest does indeed detecting my "touch"? | 14:23 |
| bregma | geistest should dump a whole lot of event data to stdout for each touch | 14:24 |
| bregma | geisview does the same, only in a gui | 14:24 |
| bregma | 'xinput test-xi2' does the same with the raw X11 events | 14:25 |
| the_hydra | i just re did the geistest, nothing happen | 14:28 |
| the_hydra | this time, i threw in the window id and the device id (i got it from xinput list-props | 14:29 |
| the_hydra | and....geisview. from its show device menu, I saw empty text box | 14:33 |
| the_hydra | does that mean, I am out of luck? | 14:34 |
| bregma | probably... what kind of touchpad do you have? | 14:42 |
| the_hydra | xinput report it as Synaptic PS/2... the laptop itself was bought circa early 2008 | 14:48 |
| the_hydra | btw, thanks for your assistance so far | 14:52 |
| the_hydra | i'd like to mention, I am currently using Linux Mint 13 KDE | 14:52 |
| bregma | a Synaptic PS/2 is a semi-multitouch device -- it provides the bounding box of the touches and the number of touches, but that information can not be used to identify individual touches or perform most gestures | 14:55 |
| bregma | I have one myself | 14:56 |
| bregma | then again, I have a while stable of other devices, too | 14:56 |
| the_hydra | bregma: ok so i am out of luck | 15:18 |
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