Flicks not detected

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Hi

I've succesfully compiled and installed Touchegg x86-64 for Ubuntu 12.10. I'm 
running Gnome Shell 3.6 on an Acer C7 Chromebook (yay!).

I can use drags and taps with 1-5 fingers perfectly (This machine has a cypress 
apa touchpad that works well for multitouch). However, when I attempt to do a 
flick (with any number of fingers) I get this from the terminal:

Failed to copy non-existent touch

I attach my configuration below.

Thank you.

--Rich

Original issue reported on code.google.com by richardt...@gmail.com on 5 Mar 2013 at 2:17

Attachments:

• touchegg.conf

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( And BTW - thank you so much - this computer is now a joy to use :D )

Original comment by richardt...@gmail.com on 5 Mar 2013 at 2:28

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Hi! I'm sorry, but I don't know what do you mean with the "flick" gesture.. 
it's a PINCH?
Please, paste the complete output when you perform this gesture

Greetings and thanks!

Original comment by jose.exposito89@gmail.com on 5 Mar 2013 at 10:50

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Hello Jose :)

I must have been mistaken - I assumed that Flick was one of the gestures 
recognised. I got that from the terminal launch of touchegg where it lists 
Flick alongside the other gestures. However, Drag does what I want nicely.

I do have some other suggestions (doesn't everyone?)

1. At the moment touchegg recognises a Tap immediately. Could this be changed 
so that it recognises a Tap+Release instead. This would prevent confusion 
between multiple gestures. For example, I have set up the different four finger 
Drags to maximise, snap left, snap right and minimise windows. However, I 
cannot use four finger Tap to close a window because the Drags often get 
recognised as Taps. However, if the definition of Tap was changed to 
Tap+Release this would not happen.

2. At the moment the composed_gestures_time property applies globally to all 
taps. This has side-effects. For example, if I have a four-finger Double Tap 
set-up this will slow down the results of a gesture such as three finger Tap 
even if there are no other composed three finger gestures defined. Could 
touchegg not figure out from the config file which taps can safely ignore the 
composed_gestures_time property?

3. Have you ever used the OS X app BetterTouchTool? It is not as nicely 
configurable as touchegg (text file configuration FTW!) but has a very nice 
array of gestures - for example things like Click-Swipes and Tip-Taps. I 
thought you might find some of those interesting :)

Anyway, thanks again Jose!

Original comment by richardt...@gmail.com on 6 Mar 2013 at 3:33

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Hi!

You can check the supported gestures here:
http://code.google.com/p/touchegg/wiki/AllGestures

Thank you very much for your sugestions. Unfortunately the Ubuntu uTouch stack 
is not as versatile as the OS X stack... And with the new changes in Ubuntu 
(Unity Next/Mir) I don't know what is the future of Touchégg

Thanks again!

Original comment by jose.exposito89@gmail.com on 6 Mar 2013 at 10:29

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