cursor ( trackpad only ) freezes randomly in chromium window

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ubuntu 11.04
chromium ( 12.0.742.112~r90304-0ubuntu0.11.04.1 )
touchegg installed as binary: v1.0 i386.deb
utouch ver 1.1
Gnome classic

The cursor freezes when over a chromium browser window using either the 
laptop's ( Lenovo T410 ) trackpad or Apple's magic trackpad.

Touchegg seems to be using the default .config/touchegg/touchegg.conf, of which 
none of the listed gestures work.

Tried configuring with touchegg-GUI provide by Touchégg v0.3, but that writes 
to ~/.touchegg/touchegg.conf which doesn't seem to be used by touchegg v1.0

Original issue reported on code.google.com by mathews....@gmail.com on 4 Oct 2011 at 3:53

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Further to the above, when I run touchegg in a shell, this is what I see 
repeatedly if I hover over chromium
[+] Unknown gesture: 
    Name ->  "Touch,touch=1" 
    Number of fingers->  1 

Original comment by mathews....@gmail.com on 4 Oct 2011 at 4:18

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Hi!

Remember that for the moment this version haven't got a GUI, you need to edit 
your "~/.config/touchegg/touchegg.conf" file to change your configuration:
http://code.google.com/p/touchegg/wiki/AllActions
http://code.google.com/p/touchegg/wiki/AllGestures

Can you attach this configuration please?

Thanks for report!

Original comment by jose.exposito89@gmail.com on 4 Oct 2011 at 7:32

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Yep, thought that might be the case, but I'm still using the default config ( 
attached )

Original comment by mathews....@gmail.com on 4 Oct 2011 at 9:04

Attachments:

• touchegg.conf

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Mmmm I don't know where can stay the problem... I'm using Magic Trackpad and 
Chromium too without problems (but in KDE)... Well, go to test xD

Do you have the same problem if you remove the chormium specified stuff from 
your configuration file?

    <application name="Chromium-browser, Dolphin">

        <gesture type="DRAG" fingers="2" direction="LEFT">
            <action type="SEND_KEYS">Alt+Left</action>
        </gesture>

        <gesture type="DRAG" fingers="2" direction="RIGHT">
            <action type="SEND_KEYS">Alt+Right</action>
        </gesture>

    </application>

Do you have the same problem if you kill Touchégg? ($ killall -9 touchegg)

Does it only occurs with the Chromium window?

Original comment by jose.exposito89@gmail.com on 4 Oct 2011 at 10:59

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Yep removing the section above has stopped the problem. Which leads me to 
wonder if something in the rest of the config is preventing any of the 
multitouch functions working apart from 2-finger scrolling, which was working 
without touchegg anyway.

Original comment by mathews....@gmail.com on 5 Oct 2011 at 5:38

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This is probably because you doesn't configure your synaptics driver, try to 
configure it with the gpointing-device-settings program ;)
Anyway Touchégg overrides this scroll when is running

Do you have the same problem with specified gestures in other apps? For example 
with Firefox and this configuration at the end of your file:

    <application name="Firefox">

        <gesture type="DRAG" fingers="2" direction="LEFT">
            <action type="SEND_KEYS">Alt+Left</action>
        </gesture>

        <gesture type="DRAG" fingers="2" direction="RIGHT">
            <action type="SEND_KEYS">Alt+Right</action>
        </gesture>

    </application>

Original comment by jose.exposito89@gmail.com on 5 Oct 2011 at 7:50

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gpointing-device-settings for some reason do not keep after a log out or 
reboot, so I stopped using it. I just tried it again to see if touchegg makes 
any difference, but it didn't. 

The XML above for firefox with touchegg running didn't do anything. No freeze 
either.

Original comment by mathews....@gmail.com on 6 Oct 2011 at 5:59

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Actually no, I was wrong above. Firefox freezes too when I used the config 
above, and exhibits the same behavior I described originally for Chromimum.

Original comment by mathews....@gmail.com on 6 Oct 2011 at 7:00

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I can not help to you with gpointing-device-settings, KDE uses synaptiks and it 
changes the configuration at startup.

About the freeze...

I can not help you because I can not emulate the bug, for this reason, I'm 
going to close the issue, but, if the problem persist in Oneiric (nextt week) 
please, reopen it.

Thank you very much for yout time
Greetings!!

Original comment by jose.exposito89@gmail.com on 6 Oct 2011 at 6:51

• Changed state: WontFix