Re: Emacs, touchegg and touchpad events

[Po Lu]

"T.V Raman" <raman@google.com> writes:

> Interesting.
>
> Here is what I discovered next:
>
> Start touchegg as a daemon via systemctl -- it starts happily and runs
> but doesn't deliver events to emacs.

I'm going to guess that it's because Emacs is now using the X input
extension.

Try building --without-xinput2.

> Incidentally I looked through the emacs-29 touch code and it
> essentially does not work for me on my laptop's touchpad; the only
> event I can get emacs to see in that case (with no touchegg running)
> is the touch-end event sporadically showing up. Pinch etc dont appear
> to work.

What version of the X.Org server are you using?  As I said, you need
21.1.0 or later.