Bug 95479 - Unable to enable multiple touchpad scrolling methods simultaneously
Summary: Unable to enable multiple touchpad scrolling methods simultaneously
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Wayland
Classification: Unclassified
Component: libinput (show other bugs)
Version: 1.2.x
Hardware: All Linux (All)
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Assignee: Wayland bug list
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Reported: 2016-05-19 02:03 UTC by exc
Modified: 2016-05-19 03:12 UTC (History)
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Description exc 2016-05-19 02:03:57 UTC 
Hi,

With xf86-input-synaptics I used to have both edge and two-finger scrolling
methods enabled at same time, but with xf86-input-libinput I can't.

Steps to Reproduce:
    xinput set-prop 'SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad' 'libinput Scroll Method Enabled' 1 1 0

Actual Results:
    X Error of failed request:  BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
      Major opcode of failed request:  131 (XInputExtension)
      Minor opcode of failed request:  57 ()
      Value in failed request:  0x121
      Serial number of failed request:  20
      Current serial number in output stream:  21 

Expected Results:
    Ability to use two-finger and edge scrolling at same time.

According to bug 90070, this behaviour used to be enabled accidentally.

I'm using Debian Stretch amd64, libinput10 1.2.4-1, xserver-xorg-input-libinput 0.18.0-1.
Comment 1 Peter Hutterer 2016-05-19 02:15:06 UTC 
Yeah, that's a design decision, we won't allow that, sorry.
Comment 2 exc 2016-05-19 02:48:10 UTC 
So, changing second parameter type of libinput_device_config_scroll_set_method to bitmask is out of question? It even won't break ABI: looks like values of enum libinput_config_scroll_method was selected for this purpose.

Sorry if I missed something.
Comment 3 Peter Hutterer 2016-05-19 03:12:30 UTC 
The API is the easy bit, the more difficult bit is making sure the implementation works as expected. And simply said it's too niche a use-case to spend a large amount of time on it.

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