Re: Three Finger Tap?
Re: Three Finger Tap?
- Subject: Re: Three Finger Tap?
- From: Jeremy Huddleston <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 21:26:37 -0700
On Jul 8, 2009, at 18:44, William Mortensen wrote:
On Jul 8, 2009, at 6:28 PM, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
On Jul 8, 2009, at 16:54, Egan Ford wrote:
Is there anyway to configure the middle mouse button event as a 3
finger
tap?
If anything, this would be at the toolkit level. There's nothing
at the server level that has to do with interpretations of mouse
events as anything more than mouse events. That being said, X11
doesn't really even know about "fingers"... all it knows about mice
are x/y location (or deltas of) and buttons... so I'm curious where
you would find something like that useful... Am I missing something?
I think Egan wants another option for mouse-button emulation--
specifically, have a three-finger tap produce a middle-click. This
would fit quite well with the fact that two-finger taps already
produce right-clicks anywhere in OS X (if you enable it in the
Trackpad pane of System Preferences).
Well any right clicks sent to applications (produced by emulation or
otherwise) are seen as right clicks in X11... similarly for middle
clicks... There's no magic that needs to be done. Just set the
preference you want in OSX's trackpad preferences, and it'll "just
work" with X11.
IIRC from random reading on the interwebs, the APIs for applications
to receive multitouch events are private (though easy to reverse-
engineer) in Leopard but look to be public in Snow Leopard. But I
suppose that distinction shouldn't matter for an Apple product. :-)
We need to get to the 1.7 server branch before we can start thinking
about multi-touch/multi-pointer support. Right now, 1.5 is almost
releaseable (in beta, one blocker)... 1.6 is mostly working (same
blocker, but other internal behavioral changes I need to re-engineer),
and 1.7 is not even released yet by X.org... but that support isn't
even in a released Xserver right now, so no toolkits even support it,
so having it in the server would be not be useful at this point. It
is a design goal, but not a short term one.
--Jeremy
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