:(

It's pretty fundamental to use of mouse that when you are clicking a mouse button, your hand moves the mouse and this may register in the sensor, causing a drag event to register. The higher quality sensor (high DPI), the more likely this is.

There used to be a "drag start distance" setting in Linux desktop environments, but now it's missing (specifically #KDE Plasma 6 but probably elsewhere too).

#libinput is the backend of mouse handling with #Wayland, I couldn't find this setting in it.

I've already assumed that my touch pad was broken (or the driver was buggy) because after a tap-and-drag action, the mouse button was not released when releasing the finger from the touch pad.

It was "sticky", e.g. after marking multiple lines of text.

Just found out that this was introduced a while ago in Sway (to follow libinput recommendations):

https://github.com/swaywm/sway/commit/bbadf9b8b10d171a6d5196da7716ea50ee7a6062

Setting "drag_lock disabled" in the touch pad's config fixes this. 😌

#sway #libinput #linux #touchpad #laptop

The recent updates also included a new version of #libinput. However, #bash is still reporting: Command not found.

This is no fun at all…

#Linux #Arch #ArchLinux

Mit den gerade durchgeführten Updates kam auch eine neue Version für #libinput. Doch immer noch meldet #bash: Kommando nicht gefunden.

Das macht alles keinen Spaß…

#Linux #Arch #ArchLinux

I'm mildly sad because recent updates to Linux Mint mean that my computer no longer connects to the Bluetooth adapter I plugged into my stereo, my clever hack to make my middle button a drag lock no longer works and my start menu became tiny. I'm sure that all the issues are solvable, if you have more skills than me, but I wish that things didn't break when they updated.

I am sure that keeping everything working across a vast space of configurations is a hard, hard problem, so no criticism is meant. I would like it to work though.

#LinuxMint, #Bluetooth, #Xinput, #Libinput, #Moan, #WhyIsMyStartMenuTeenyTiny

In today's edition of FDO sabotaging the desktop experience: #libinput spiking a single CPU core to 100% when the mouse is moved and dropping a crapton of events when twitching it in shooter games.

Uninstall the libinput Xorg input driver directly using evdev instead; and lo and behold: No CPU spikes and perfectly smooth input.

Can the whole libinput+Wayland+"modern Linux desktop" fad (that's holding back true progress for 15 years now) now please go collectively go and die in a fire?

libinput now supports LUA plugins. Sounds quite exciting. It makes customization of input devices much more robust, granular and programming friendly (looking at existing evdev events remapping tools).

https://wayland.freedesktop.org/libinput/doc/latest/lua-plugins.html
https://www.phoronix.com/news/libinput-1.30-Released

#libinput #linux #lua