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JoseExposito / gnome-shell-extension-x11gestures

Enable GNOME Shell multi-touch gestures on X11 with this extension
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Option for not loading on Wayland #13

Closed marcolaux closed 3 years ago

marcolaux commented 3 years ago

Hello and thank you for your great work and engagement!

Currently I'm often switching between Wayland and X11 because I have an Optimus dual GPU laptop and depending on what mode I am GDM loads the X11 or Wayland session (because NVIDIA is not supported).

I would like to see a feature that the extension does not try to establish a connection to touchegg on a Wayland session.

What do you think?

JoseExposito commented 3 years ago

Hi!

In theory, I'm checking if the current session is the Wayland session and exit silently (well, I print a log https://github.com/JoseExposito/gnome-shell-extension-x11gestures/blob/master/extension.js#L32).

Is it showing an error in your case?

marcolaux commented 3 years ago

Thank you for your quick reply.

Right... I was irritated by the regular Touchegg process in combination with wayland:

Jun 01 19:19:30 computername touchegg.desktop[2844]: Error connecting to Touchégg daemon: Could not connect: Connection refused
Jun 01 19:19:30 computername touchegg.desktop[2844]: Reconnecting in 5 seconds...
marcolaux commented 3 years ago

I'm wondering why there is the autostart in /etc/xdg/autostart/touchegg.desktop when there is a systemd service.

JoseExposito commented 3 years ago

Aham, ok, that's a different issue.

It's not related to the extension but with Touchégg it self. It's weird that it is not able to connect to the daemon though, it shouldn't fail...

Could you attach the logs of the daemon in the Wayland session, please?

In a terminal:

$ sudo journalctl -u touchegg -b -f

(Control + C to exit)

I'm wondering why there is the autostart in /etc/xdg/autostart/touchegg.desktop when there is a systemd service.

The reason is that Touchégg runs in 2 different processes:

This extension is just another client integrated with GNOME Shell.

marcolaux commented 3 years ago

Thank you very much for the explaination. I deactivated the service and this is then understandable because the service is not meant to get disabled and when it fails it should restart itself.

Will touchegg interfer with Wayland or XWayland when I keep it enabled? I would like to only use it while on X11.

JoseExposito commented 3 years ago

It could interfere with XWayland applications, almost every action works with XWayland apps. Other that that, it shouldn't cause any trouble.