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Multitouch lets you link a custom action with a specific magic trackpad or magic mouse gesture. For example, a click can run a three fingers stuck. Improve your workflow executing keyboard shortcuts, controlling your browser tabs, clicking the middle mouse button and more. Multitouch (formerly TouchOven) ties a custom action to a specific magic trackpad or magic mouse gesture.For example, a three finger click can execute a paste. Improve your workflow by executing keyboard shortcuts, controlling your browser’s tabs, performing a middle mouse click, and much more. Home Forums General Technology Computer Zone PC Apllications Multitouch 1.19.5 – Handful trackpad gestures Welcome to Ramleague, Ramleague - the best site for pinoy chat, games chat and mobiles chat. Multitouch – Handful trackpad gestures 1.24. February 24, 2021; Utilities; Last Updated on February 24, 2021 by admin. Multitouch (formerly TouchOven) ties a custom action to a specific magic trackpad or magic mouse gesture. For example, a three finger click can execute a paste. Improve your workflow by executing keyboard shortcuts.
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SOME OF THE Frequently Asked Questions
Q.: What does the Trackpad++ Control Module user interface look like?
A.:Here is a screen shot. (Note: in the most recent version, both the appearance and the features may be different).
Q.: Why alternate trackpad driver for Windows 7 / 8 / 10?
A.: Apple trackpads are the perfect, probably world's best, touchpad devices. And the MacOS native driver is good: it unleashes almost all of the amazing trackpad capabilities. But the stock Windows driver provided by Apple for Boot Camp is, unfortunately, very far from being perfect. No support of 3+ finger gestures. No accelerated scrolling (yet the scrolling is too sensitive!). Dragging is just usable. And there is no vital option to ignore accidental input when typing. This is just an incomplete list of the issues every Boot Camp user is experiencing. So, the need of the better trackpad driver is obvious. In fact, if you are asking this question, then probably you have never tried to use Windows on an Apple Macbook Retina / Pro / Air :)
Q.: Do I need to install the Boot Camp drivers first? What are the supported Boot Camp and Windows versions?
A.: Yes, the Boot Camp drivers shall be installed (but normally it's already done automatically by Apple installer, right after you install the Windows). The supported Boot Camp versions are 3.0 - 3.3, 4.0, 4.1, 5.0, 5.1, 6.0 and 6.1
Q.: Which devices except of the Macbook, Macbook Pro and Macbook Air are supported?
A.: NONE. The only supported devices are: Force Touch Macbook Pro 16' Late 2019, Macbook Pro 13' / 15' Mid 2020, Mid 2019, Mid 2018, Mid 2017 and Late 2016, Macbook 12' Early 2015, Early 2016, Mid 2017, Macbook 13' / 15' Early 2015 and Mid 2015; classic Multi Touch models: Macbook Pro (Mid 2009, Mid 2010, Early 2011, Late 2011, Mid 2012 / Retina, Late 2012 / Retina, Early 2013 / Retina, Late 2013 / Retina, Mid 2014 / Retina) and Macbook Air (Late 2010, Mid 2011, Mid 2012, Mid 2013, Early 2014, Early 2015, Mid 2017, Late 2018, Mid 2019, Early 2020).
If you search for a Bluetooth Magic Trackpad / Magic Trackpad 2 driver installer and control panel for Boot Camp or PC, please see the following solution: an ExtraMagic.
Q.: Is it safe to install the Trackpad++? And, just in case, how do I remove the driver?
A.: Yes, it's completely safe to install, especially now when the driver is Microsoft-cross-signed, so its origin and integrity and fully assured. Just follow the simple installation instructions. Also (optional, but recommended step) you can install the Power Plan Assistant software first. In fact, the Trackpad++ does not interfere with any of the Boot Camp drivers installed. Instead, it seamlessly integrates into your existing Boot Camp installation. The setup procedure is transparent and fully automatic. If you would like to remove the Trackpad++ from your system, you can simply uninstall the Control Module (as you do with any Windows application - via Windows Control Panel) and, optionally, roll back to a 'HID-Compliant Mouse' driver via Windows 7 / 8 Device Manager. When the Trackpad++ Control Module is not installed anymore, the system will use the settings of the Boot Camp control panel, as if the Trackpad++ had never been installed.
Q.: Even with Trackpad++, the scrolling in my web browser isn't as smooth as in MacOS (Safari). Any suggestions?
A.: First of all, even in MacOS, other browsers do not provide the same ultra-smooth experience as Safari. So, the question is not just about the trackpad driver settings, but about how each specific browser handles the scrolling events it receives from the driver. For Windows, the answer would be - consider using the Opera or Firefox web browser. These browsers work best with Trackpad++, providing almost as smooth and as intuitive scrolling experience as Safari in MacOS. As to the rest of the browsers, the experience may not be 100% perfect. In any case, the Trackpad++ significantly improves scrolling behavior vs. the Boot Camp driver, so you should get noticeable improvement regardless of the web browser you are using.
Q.: I have got a question which is not listed there! How can I get an answer?
A.: Please feel free to contact us.
Perhaps one of the biggest difficulties in setting up a Linux system for desktop/home use is the fragmentation of the ecosystem, with many different options claiming to get you from point a to somewhere in the vicinity of point b, each with their subtle differences (and at least a few “gotchas” along the way). An easy example: in 2020, you’d think there would be an easy answer to getting a trackpad/touchpad up and running with support for multi-touch gestures at least on par with the experience on Windows and macOS – after all, it’s been 12 years since Apple made multi-touch popular with 2008 MacBook Air.
The state of Linux multi-touch input in 2020
Unfortunately, it’s not so simple. First there was xf86-input-synaptics
, initially written to specifically target Synaptics touchpads but later updated with support for many different devices – for the longest time this was both the best and the only way of getting Linux to recognize and support the most common trackpads. Along the way to no longer being a Synaptics-only PS/2 touchpad driver, xf86-input-synaptics
started to use the evdev
Linux kernel input driver, which also gave birth to the more generic input/mouse/touchpad xf86-input-evdev
driver that used the same kernel abstraction, which most distributions now use because it featured some (limited) multi-touch gesture support and was viewed as the way forward. Then came Wayland with its “let’s rewrite everything” approach and brought with it libinput
, as yet another replacement abstraction for all input devices. Unlike previous projects, libinput and its accompanying xf86-input-libinput
X11 integration, promised native support for touchpads and multi-touch gestures, touting its superior abstraction as the reason why it could provide a better multi-touch experience where its predecessors couldn’t.
While it’s true that libinput comes with out-of-the-box gesture support, it’s unfortunately a gigantic step back in terms of the actual touchpad experience. As many people that switched from xf86-input-synaptics
to xf86-input-libinput
can attest (or anyone that’s tried libinput on a laptop after using Windows or macOS): it’s horrible. Regardless of how you tweak it (except perhaps if you have the exact make and model of touchpad the developers used), it feels like you’re either trying to push the cursor through mud or else chasing Blinky, Pinky, Inky and Clyde on the final level of PacMan and just can’t keep up. Instead of using the decades of work that went into the existing drivers, libinput just throws out the baby with the bathwater in the name of rewriting the stack and reinventing the wheel: the acceleration curves are extremely poor, the heuristics for determining acceleration give extremely unnatural results, and the entire experience makes one want to never try Linux on a laptop ever again.
Sidebar: if you haven’t already read it, this historical gem features Ted Selker explaining the decade of work that went into developing IBM’s Trackpoint, and the painstaking effort that it takes to create an input device (and accompanying driver/software) that is ergonomic, natural, intuitive, and user friendly. Anyone thinking of rewriting something as complex and subtle as a touchpad driver should read this before thinking they can do a better job and trying to foist their replacement on others.
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Rather than risk falling into the same Wayland/libinput mistake in an attempt at creating “a newer, better alternative” (see XKCD #927) and especially given the fact that xf86-input-synaptics
already does a really good job at providing a great – albeit single-touch – touchpad experience out-of-the-box, I wondered how hard it would be to simply add multi-touch gesture support on top of the synaptics input driver. My aspirations were not high: simply having two-finger forward and backward swipe navigation in Firefox would have been enough for me.
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I was prepared to have to dig deep into the drivers to add support for multi-touch gestures, but it turned out not to be not very hard at all: as xf86-input-synaptics
now uses libevdev
under the hood, the driver-level support for reading multi-touch inputs from the trackpad itself is already fully implemented, just ignored. From there, it didn’t take long to create a proof-of-concept that would allow the xf86-input-synaptics
driver to handle cursor motion, acceleration, deceleration, etc. but allow a userland program/daemon to monitor for and act upon multi-touch inputs (via the Linux multi-touch protocol).
Introducing Syngestures
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syngesture
is a configurable, multi-device capable, and rust-powered userland daemon that brings basic multi-touch support for one-, two-, and three-finger gestures to the venerable xf86-input-synaptics
driver. It is, of course, fully open-source and released under the MIT license.
Like many other solutions, it was originally developed to scratch a personal itch, but after hearing from others with similar complaints, I decided to add some fit and polish (such as machine-wide and per-user config files and support for multiple devices with per-device configuration) that will hopefully make it more useful to the open source community at large. It was originally designed as an alternative to libinput and specifically intended for use with xf86-input-synaptics
as explained above, but it should also work with xf86-input-evdev
and other devices implementing the Linux Multi-Touch Protocol.
syngesture
is available on GitHub and is considered ready for general use (modulo distribution-specific packages and system integrations for alternatives for manual configuration – e.g. initial device discovery – and deployment).