Bug 104033

Summary:	Recognizing touchscreen long touch as RMC
Product:	Wayland	Reporter:	Sergey <hxss>
Component:	libinput	Assignee:	Wayland bug list <wayland-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium	CC:	hxss, peter.hutterer
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86-64 (AMD64)
OS:	Linux (All)
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Sergey 2017-12-02 08:57:03 UTC

Can you please add feature for recognizing touchscreen long touch as right mouse click? Like this work in windows or android.

Comment 1 Peter Hutterer 2017-12-03 01:42:44 UTC

Not in libinput, sorry. Please request that this be added in your toolkit.

libinput doesn't have enough knowledge of the actual context of the application, so unconditionally converting a long touch into a right click is just a bad idea. It introduces delays and causes erroneous conversions to right clicks when this shouldn't happen (e.g. selecting an element or interacting with an element that requires a long touch).

This needs to be implemented in the toolkit (or the application directly) but not in libinput.

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