Closed ylluminate closed 3 years ago
I'm not too familiar with multitouch options for Linux,, but judging from the fact that that particular project hasn't been updated in almost 3 years and isn't packaged for openSUSE I'm pretty sure it's no longer the recommended method.
What appears to be work best at the moment is touchegg
with touchegg-gui
, both available in the openSUSE repositories.
Thank you very much for pointing that out. I'm investigating using it, but unfortunately it seems that no up-to-date packages are available for OpenSUSE (eg, https://software.opensuse.org/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&baseproject=openSUSE%3AFactory&q=touchegg). I'm really surprised there's such lower levels of support for OpenSUSE when it seems better engineered than other distro options.
Hmm true. You could try the RPM that the Touchegg project offers on Github. Or, you could try requesting the Touchegg maintainer for openSUSE to update the package: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/openSUSE%3AFactory/touchegg
From what he said it seems he prefers to have the app updated by whoever made the (very old) packages that exist...
Right, the developer of the program is usually different from the packager. If you look in the changelog in the link that I sent you you'll see who created the openSUSE packages and you can directly request an update there.
Yeah, the age of the comments were discouraging since he did do as they requested... 😣
Uhm https://software.opensuse.org/package/touchegg?search_term=touchegg has 2.0.9.
The latest release is 2.0.9: https://github.com/JoseExposito/touchegg/releases
But of course, only openSUSE Tumbleweed has 2.0.9. That is exactly as it's intended to be. Leap updates slower.
@Bananaman Looks like they just recently updated it for Tumbleweed. Before that it hadn't been updated for years.
@geckolinux Woof, yep I see what you mean, it wasn't maintained for 3 years:
https://build.opensuse.org/package/revisions/openSUSE:Factory/touchegg
Oh well this can happen with unpopular projects. But if I notice any outdated touchegg I'll let the package maintainer know. And so should anyone else who uses this package and sees any issue. :)
Ahhh nice, the mystery has been solved. It wasn't openSUSE's fault. @geckolinux
touchegg 1.1.1 was released in 2015: https://github.com/JoseExposito/touchegg/releases?after=2.0.0
Then there were ZERO releases until 2.0.0 on September 27th, 2020.
On the SAME DAY as the developer released touchegg 2.0.0 on Github, he also left a message on the openSUSE package tellign them how to build it and include it: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/openSUSE:Factory/touchegg
They replied that there was a bug in touchegg that prevented building: https://github.com/JoseExposito/touchegg/issues/337
Finally it took some time for openSUSE's package maintainer to react to the news that touchegg has been fixed. It was most likely thanks to @ylluminate leaving a comment on the package page, which the maintainer saw and then updated it.
It's all fixed now. :)
Would you mind please explaining the GeckoLinux way of following the instructions in this (I believe Ubuntu-based) writeup for the Apple Magic Trackpad 2 setup?: https://howchoo.com/linux/the-perfect-almost-touchpad-settings-on-linux-2
The dependencies and lib paths seem to be slightly different and I've run into
configure
errors thus far in getting them to line up for GeckoLinux.