Or maybe I’m completely misunderstanding what you mean by “click on touch mouse pointer”.
I’m not understanding why X11’s not wanted with a thinkpad. I’ve had various thinkpads (penabled, multi-touch, and no-touchscreen), since (iirc) 2007ish, and had no troubles.
What’s wayland doing for you? What’s the problem with X11?
I only have experience with Plasma, but on X11 when I tap on the screen, it emulates a mouse click where I tap. And it also does when I swipe my finger, like holding a clicked mouse and moving the pointer. And gestures don’t work, though I think that one can be fixed.
Wayland just works. When I want to select text, press and hold like on a phone. When scrolling something, I just swipe it like on a phone (except for LibreOffice, that one is an absolute mess on Wayland). Especially nice with drawing programs. Stylus acts just like what I described with finger on X11 - it controls mouse pointer.
In effect this means that with fingers I can move around and zoom, while with stylus I can draw or select text.
And then GTK 4.20 breaks Rnote and I can only use it via Xwayland…
Anyway, for a touchscreen device, I had more luck with Wayland.
I prefer Wayland because I use a 2-in-1 ThinkPad. No thanks X11, I don’t want a click on touch mouse pointer.
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You cant configure your way around that?
Or maybe I’m completely misunderstanding what you mean by “click on touch mouse pointer”.
I’m not understanding why X11’s not wanted with a thinkpad. I’ve had various thinkpads (penabled, multi-touch, and no-touchscreen), since (iirc) 2007ish, and had no troubles.
What’s wayland doing for you? What’s the problem with X11?
I only have experience with Plasma, but on X11 when I tap on the screen, it emulates a mouse click where I tap. And it also does when I swipe my finger, like holding a clicked mouse and moving the pointer. And gestures don’t work, though I think that one can be fixed.
Wayland just works. When I want to select text, press and hold like on a phone. When scrolling something, I just swipe it like on a phone (except for LibreOffice, that one is an absolute mess on Wayland). Especially nice with drawing programs. Stylus acts just like what I described with finger on X11 - it controls mouse pointer.
In effect this means that with fingers I can move around and zoom, while with stylus I can draw or select text.
And then GTK 4.20 breaks Rnote and I can only use it via Xwayland…
Anyway, for a touchscreen device, I had more luck with Wayland.
Interesting. Thanks.
I just tried that on my multitouch X220T, and at first, it worked fine, no click, able to move cursor… but then somehow I lost the knack…
I guess I don’t use my touchscreens enough for it to matter to me.
When drawing, I typically pull out my proper wacom. Otherwise it’s nearly all trackpoint or mouse.