Bug 89511

Summary:	feature request: triple tap (double-click + drag)
Product:	Wayland	Reporter:	Mantas Mikulėnas <grawity>
Component:	libinput	Assignee:	Wayland bug list <wayland-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	minor
Priority:	medium	CC:	jonny.lamb, jwrdegoede, peter.hutterer
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Mantas Mikulėnas 2015-03-10 06:49:12 UTC

The synaptics driver used to recognize 3x tapping as doubleclick+drag. That is, instead of two taps [like you would for a regular selection], you could tap the touchpad 3 times, resulting in click - release - click - drag/select - release.

This is useful when selecting text, as the double-click selects a single word, and dragging then proceeds to select word-by-word in most programs. (For example, Chromium or gnome-terminal.)

The libinput driver only recognizes this as a regular double-click followed by a regular cursor move.

Currently I can just use physical buttons as a replacement, but might this be implemented sometime in the future?

libinput 0.12.0-7-g8ffc213
xf86-input-libinput 0.8.0

Comment 1 Peter Hutterer 2015-03-17 06:03:50 UTC

Hans, can you look into this when you find time? Thanks

Comment 2 Peter Hutterer 2015-04-16 05:05:22 UTC

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2015-April/021360.html

Comment 3 Peter Hutterer 2015-04-17 03:58:14 UTC

commit abdca333877e9cbd7df0d9c295fa158bec96a407
Author: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
Date:   Thu Apr 16 10:19:11 2015 +1000

    touchpad: introduce MULTITAP for multi-tap-and-drag

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