Coffee2CodeNL/gebaar-libinput

Gestures not working

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vimpostor commented

I cannot get the gestures to work.

I have installed the AUR package and added a config file at ~/.config/gebaar/gebaard.toml with the content:

[commands.swipe.three]
up = "xdotool key ctrl+F10"
down = "xdotool key ctrl+F8"
left = "qdbus org.kde.KWin /KWin previousDesktop"
right = "qdbus org.kde.KWin /KWin nextDesktop"

I am also in the input group (I was using libinput-gestures before).

Now, when I run gebaard, I cannot get it to recognize any three finger swipe motion. It sometimes outputs:

libinput error: event12 - ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad: kernel bug: Touch jump detected and discarded.
See https://wayland.freedesktop.org/libinput/doc/1.12.6/touchpad-jumping-cursors.html for details

But I think, that this is unrelated. Since there is no verbose test mode, I cannot test if it is not detecting my gestures or if something is wrong with my config file.

sersorrel commented

Likewise – I had to make a few modifications to get it to compile on Ubuntu 18.04 (remove the minimum CMake version, replace filesystem with experimental/filesystem), but it doesn't appear to be doing anything.

It does seem to be able to recognise gestures; when I do a swipe, it will print the string 83c9f035e. But I don't know why it does that, and it doesn't run any of the commands in the config file.

Coffee2CodeNL commented

Likewise – I had to make a few modifications to get it to compile on Ubuntu 18.04 (remove the minimum CMake version, replace filesystem with experimental/filesystem), but it doesn't appear to be doing anything.

You're using GCC7, use GCC8.

sersorrel commented

use GCC8

Thanks, that makes it compile without changes, apart from the cmake version. Now it prints Error: target STRING not available whenever it detects a gesture.

Coffee2CodeNL commented

Use this as config file template:

[commands.swipe.three]
left_up = ""
right_up = ""
up = ""
left_down = ""
right_down = ""
down = ""
left = ""
right = ""

[commands.swipe.four]
left_up = ""
right_up = ""
up = ""
left_down = ""
right_down = ""
down = ""
left = ""
right = ""
sersorrel commented

Still not working :/ (but, I realised why it was "printing" weird stuff – my terminal apparently pastes on three-finger click, even if you then do a swipe...)

vimpostor commented

I got it working now and it is actually a bug in the code. Will submit a PR now.