Getting the cherry on top with my elentech touchpad (3 finger gesture)

[Helios38]

Hello,


Ubuntu convert here, I recently installed F17 on my ASUS K53E and first want to say how great it worked OotB. Better than Ubuntu EVER had. And the Gnome 3 UI is so much nicer to use than Unity was for me personally. Plugins galore! Kudos to you Fedora devs! You have +1 loyal Fedora user.

So I have everything setup as I like, I just have one thing about my touchpad I'd like to get working.

In Windows, I had the ability to use 3/4 finger gestures. I really liked the ability to 3 finger swipe left and right to send the forward/back command to my web browser.


Is there a way to get that to work in Fedora? I enough about a Linux system to roll my own kernel and goof around with system level files in command line. A complicated process won't slow me down! As long as I can get that 3 finger gesture working.

I have an elentech touchpad.

Any ideas?

[koperry]

Might look here http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=251575

[Helios38]

Took a look at the man page for Synaptics. I couldn't find any setting for 3 finger swipes. Does this mean it's not supported in Fedora?

[jayfree]

Maybe this https://code.google.com/p/touchegg/.
Source code is available.

[Helios38]

Looks promising.

I downloaded the source and it says I need "qmake"


I installed qt-devel and qt-config and I'm still getting qmake: command not found

Where can I get qmake?

[jayfree]

probably some PATH variable is not set... www.google.com?

[Helios38]

Hmm. Didn't think of qmake simply not being in PATH, I'll look into this when I get back on the computer tonight and report back.

---------- Post added 2nd June 2012 at 01:00 AM ---------- Previous post was 1st June 2012 at 01:56 PM ----------

OKAY!

Wow, this was complicated, but I made progress!

I found the exec for qmake, and you're right, it wasn't in PATH. A bit silly if you ask me.

So I started installing utouch for touchegg, which then required me to hunt down and compile the source for utouch-geis, utouch-grail and utouch-frame. This made me learn how to fiddle with pkg-config variables because the dependencies didn't like to find each other. Eventually I got all of that installed and compiled touchegg.

I couldn't find a GUI executable like the site advertised (I downloaded from SVN), which was strange. I shrugged, and ran the CLI executable. It complained that it couldn't find a geis related shared lib. I found the lib in /usr/local/lib and made a link to /usr/lib. Launched touchegg again. Alright, working!


I get this output.

[anthony@anthony-k53e src]$ touchegg
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "pk-gtk-module"
Reading config from  "/home/anthony/.config/touchegg/touchegg.conf" 
Try to make a multitouch gesture. If everything goes well the information about the gesture must appear

I started making any kind of gesture on the touchpad. No cigar, touchegg wasn't detecting it.

I then killed touchegg, copied the example .conf file from /usr/share/touchegg/ and ran it again. Same problem.


Peeking at the .conf file just shows configuring the gestures to do what you want, rather than getting touchegg to recognize your touchpad, which I believe is my problem right now. The touchegg site says as of v0.2 touchegg auto configures for your touchpad. Since I compiled from SVN I imagine it should be doing that, but it isn't.


Any ideas?

---------- Post added at 01:07 AM ---------- Previous post was at 01:00 AM ----------

Found the touchegg GUI. It was a separate tarball in the downloads section. Compiled that, installed and ran it. It appears to just be a frontend for creating your own .conf file.