The text in mouse-touchpad-click.html referring to touchpads that
support multi-finger taps should be removed in 17.04 (see Bug #1617718)
so it will then be of less importance to determine touchpad
capabilities. Some users might find it useful however. Determining
touchpad capabilities is done via commands (not via the GUI) and the
desktop help doesn't usually cover commands. I'd say that this bug is
low priority.
** Changed in: ubuntu-docs (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Low
** Changed in: ubuntu-docs (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Triaged
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1631315
Title:
Determining touchpad capabilities
Status in ubuntu-docs package in Ubuntu:
Triaged
Bug description:
In mouse-touchpad-click.html we say "If your touchpad supports multi-
finger taps, ...". But does it or not? It's actually easy to determine
a touchpad's capabilities using xinput. I give a link below. Could we
document it briefly or give a link? Apparently the basics can be
covered in about ten lines. I did a quick internet search but the best
link I found was this one to the Arch Linux wiki (which I don't think
we can link to from the desktop help!).
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Touchpad_Synaptics#Using_xinput_to_determine_touchpad_capabilities
PS. The xinput output for my touchpad is:
Synaptics Capabilities (295): 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1
so my touchpad does not support multi-finger taps.
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