Uncontrolled switching

[titaniumjones]

I've had Fusuma installed and running nicely for months. Unfortunately, I installed Tweaks, because I wanted to try other desktop themes. I'm pretty sure that was the moment when I started getting strange behaviour from Fusuma. Now when I use a 3 finger swipe up to switch WorkSpaces (desktops) It literally flashes past all the WorkSpaces (desk tops) to the top. and when I go down it flashes past all WorkSpaces (desktops) to the bottom. If I use the 4 finger swipe ( which is assigned to "Activity" ) it shows for a second and then goes back to the WorkSpace (desktop). I've watched the output/input to Fusuma and It seems to only be getting one activation, but still flashes past many WorkSpaces (desktops). I've now uninstalled Tweaks but I still get the same result. Any ideas/help/guidance would be greatly appreciated.

Oh, I also upgraded to the latest version.

[titaniumjones]

Oh I also tried increasing the threshold and interval to 2,0 but it doesn't help.

[titaniumjones]

I further found out is when there is 2 WorkSpaces (Desktops) everything behaves normally, once a 3rd desktop appears then the erratic behaviour begins.

[iberianpig]

Fusuma only parse log of libinput debug-events and convert to command.

There is no relationship between the installation of Tweaks and fusuma. I think you may have installed different gesture extensions.

[titaniumjones]

That is entirely possible. Do you have any thoughts as to what? Could it have been part of Tweaks?

[iberianpig]

Did you check extensions you installed from GNOME Shell Extensions?

[titaniumjones]

Hello Well I seem to have fixed the problem. Unfortunately I'm not sure what I did to fix it. Before finding Fusuma I did use xdotools and gestures GUI. I then moved to Fusuma and the Sendkey plugin. I guess something to do with tweaks reenabled XDOTools some how or something.... Anyway I removed Xdotools (and also libinput-tools) Reinstalled the Fusuma sendkey plugin (and also libinput-tools) and everything now seems to be working again.

[iberianpig]

I'm glad to know you solved the problem.

Do you have multiple keyboard layouts? xdotool has the known issue that input delay occurs with multiple keyboard layouts.

[titaniumjones]

And so it continues. I did think I had fixed it and indeed for a few hours I didn't experience any strange behaviour. But then it came back again. I tried to do some sleuthing of my own and I don't know if what I'm seeing is normal because I didn't see the output when I wasn't experiencing strange behaviour.

$ fusuma -v

The output continued to scroll up the terminal screen, when I pressed nothing I got a continual timeout as follows:

D, [2020-12-11T16:41:23.084113 #80803] DEBUG -- : {:input_event=>time: 2020-12-11 16:41:23 +0100, tag: libinput_command_input, record: LIBINPUT TIMEOUT}

When I do a 3 finger swipe I get the following:

D, [2020-12-11T16:46:28.875366 #80925] DEBUG -- : {:input_event=>time: 2020-12-11 16:46:28 +0100, tag: libinput_command_input, record: -event4 GESTURE_SWIPE_UPDATE +1.699s 3 -1.78/22.34 (-4.75/59.63 unaccelerated)} D, [2020-12-11T16:46:28.883570 #80925] DEBUG -- : {:input_event=>time: 2020-12-11 16:46:28 +0100, tag: libinput_command_input, record: event4 GESTURE_SWIPE_UPDATE +1.707s 3 -2.48/29.13 (-6.56/77.03 unaccelerated)} D, [2020-12-11T16:46:28.891943 #80925] DEBUG -- : {:input_event=>time: 2020-12-11 16:46:28 +0100, tag: libinput_command_input, record: event4 GESTURE_SWIPE_UPDATE +1.715s 3 -3.42/34.80 (-7.82/79.45 unaccelerated)} D, [2020-12-11T16:46:28.899598 #80925] DEBUG -- : {:input_event=>time: 2020-12-11 16:46:28 +0100, tag: libinput_command_input, record: event4 GESTURE_SWIPE_UPDATE +1.723s 3 -3.74/35.38 (-8.38/79.31 unaccelerated)} D, [2020-12-11T16:46:28.907644 #80925] DEBUG -- : {:input_event=>time: 2020-12-11 16:46:28 +0100, tag: libinput_command_input, record: event4 GESTURE_SWIPE_UPDATE +1.731s 3 -3.90/34.87 (-8.80/78.60 unaccelerated)}

I'm not sure if what I'm seeing is correct or something wrong.

Thanks

[titaniumjones]

Ok More debugging, I ran

$ ps -C fusuma

and fond I had (about) 10 instances of fusuma running. I suspect this occurs because when the swipe actions stop working I manually start another instance of fusuma -d. Clearly the previous instance hadn't stopped. I must do more investigation.

Cheers

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