On Tue, 2010-04-06 at 14:04 -0400, Jon Masters wrote: > On Tue, 2010-04-06 at 17:05 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 11:55:31AM -0400, Jon Masters wrote: > > > > > Within the Fedora desktop environment, clicking and dragging results in > > > a right mouse button event and no dragging. I turned off the silly (and > > > in my personal opinion anti-useful) right mouse button stuff after some > > > fiddling with synclient in HAL so I don't end up with a lot of minimized > > > windows or "New Folder"s on my desktop every time I try to click and > > > drag. But I still can't actually click and drag. There is a suggestion > > > this is a limitation in the synaptics driver in Xorg. Is that correct? > > > > Yes. X has no terribly useful multitouch support at present. > > I thought things were changing in that dept. Is there a place other than > the Xorg lists or shall I inquire there for the latest status? Funnily enough, a quick search with the right words brings up: http://launchpadlibrarian.net/24871592/0001-Make-click-and-drag-work-for-Macbook5-1.patch That would seem to do exactly what I wanted. I sent the author an email and will see if this still works with the recent driver (it should do). If so, then this would be a good candidate for reworking into upstream. Jon. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
