[opensuse] Amazing: touch screen just works :-)
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I just installed Leap 15.0 on a new, cheap, and small laptop machine that has a touchpad and touchscreen («Lenovo Yoga 300-11IBR», 11.6"), and the touch screen just works out of the box, both in gnome and Xfce. Ok, pressing buttons in a tiny screen with fingers is not sufficiently precise, but moving a page in firefox with the finger turns out to be faster than using the touchpad. Although in xfce or gnome touching and moving the insides of the firefox window selects text, not moves it. I have to touch the sliding bar. Still... I'm gladly surprised :-) Of course, none of the desktops seems optimized for "tablet mode". Windows does have it but I have not tried. It was in Windows where I saw the utility of moving the inside of the firefox window. Maybe that is configurable in Linux? In xfce mouse settings I see two entries: the default one is "ATML 10000:00 003EB:8C3C", whatever that is, and the other is "SynPS/2 Synaptics Touchpad". Both seem to refer to the touchpad. - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlsnl1MACgkQtTMYHG2NR9X9OwCdEE5/vRCtJkGlxdnJttnVQQdp H30Anjer1UQzZf+pgBPXhRQJ+qkVEXvQ =l7Gx -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
On 06/18/2018 07:28 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Although in xfce or gnome touching and moving the insides of the firefox window selects text, not moves it. I have to touch the sliding bar.
Have you tried dragging using two fingers? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 2018-06-18 17:20, ken wrote:
On 06/18/2018 07:28 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Although in xfce or gnome touching and moving the insides of the firefox window selects text, not moves it. I have to touch the sliding bar.
Have you tried dragging using two fingers?
Nope, but I tried now, and it doesn't work, at least on xfce, in a terminal and in firefox. Two fingers seem to do the same thing as one finger. Actually, it seems to ignore one of the fingers. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.3 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)
On 18/06/18 01:08 PM, John Andersen wrote:
On 06/18/2018 04:28 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Ok, pressing buttons in a tiny screen with fingers is not sufficiently
Buy a stylus. It works for me on a small screen device, easier than carrying around a mouse.
Well there is that.But come the keyboard, my thumbs are much bigger than the on-screen keys and composing email with a mouse and on-screen keyboard is pretty awkward. The styluses seem to come in two classes but both are more precise than any of my digits. Never the less, it still discourages the TL;DR email on a portable device. Some bargain classy styluses on eBay :-) -- A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 2018-06-20 15:18, Anton Aylward wrote:
On 18/06/18 01:08 PM, John Andersen wrote:
On 06/18/2018 04:28 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Ok, pressing buttons in a tiny screen with fingers is not sufficiently
Buy a stylus. It works for me on a small screen device, easier than carrying around a mouse.
Well there is that.But come the keyboard, my thumbs are much bigger than the on-screen keys and composing email with a mouse and on-screen keyboard is pretty awkward.
I'd just use the included touchpad, I'm already used to the things and they are precise.
The styluses seem to come in two classes but both are more precise than any of my digits. Never the less, it still discourages the TL;DR email on a portable device.
Some bargain classy styluses on eBay :-)
I bought one a few years back to use on my phone, but I never got used to it. Two, actually, one thinner "finger" than the other. The thing required a soft rubber rounded point, rather than a conductive felt point as common on previous years, which were very precise when they worked. Try to sign a form with the new type. I just de-hibernated the machine for checking, and the screensaver does not popup a keyboard. So yes, gdm has one but other things don't. Good thing this little machine is a laptop and not a tablet. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.3 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)
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