gnome-shell does not detect any touchpad gestures on Dell XPS 15 9560
On a vanilla installation of Manjaro Linux with Gnome 3.26.2 on Dell XPS 15 9560, no touchpad gestures are detected (neither 4- and 3-finger vertical swipe, nor 3-finger pinch work). However, if I install libinput-gestures
from AUR (version 2.32-1), add my user to the input
group and execute libinput-gestures-setup start
, gestures start working.
Without libinput-gestures
(when it is stop
ped), libinput debug-events
detects swipes correctly (here I'm doing a 4-finger downwards swipe):
-event8 GESTURE_SWIPE_BEGIN +6.49s 4
event8 GESTURE_SWIPE_UPDATE +6.49s 4 0.00/ 7.97 ( 0.00/28.71 unaccelerated)
event8 GESTURE_SWIPE_UPDATE +6.50s 4 0.00/11.26 ( 0.00/30.35 unaccelerated)
event8 GESTURE_SWIPE_UPDATE +6.51s 4 0.00/11.56 ( 0.00/31.17 unaccelerated)
event8 GESTURE_SWIPE_UPDATE +6.51s 4 0.91/14.00 ( 2.46/37.73 unaccelerated)
event8 GESTURE_SWIPE_UPDATE +6.52s 4 0.61/14.30 ( 1.64/38.55 unaccelerated)
event8 GESTURE_SWIPE_UPDATE +6.53s 4 1.83/14.30 ( 4.92/38.55 unaccelerated)
event8 GESTURE_SWIPE_UPDATE +6.54s 4 2.74/14.61 ( 7.38/39.37 unaccelerated)
event8 GESTURE_SWIPE_UPDATE +6.54s 4 2.74/17.95 ( 7.38/48.39 unaccelerated)
event8 GESTURE_SWIPE_UPDATE +6.55s 4 2.74/17.65 ( 7.38/47.57 unaccelerated)
event8 GESTURE_SWIPE_UPDATE +6.56s 4 3.35/17.04 ( 9.02/45.93 unaccelerated)
event8 GESTURE_SWIPE_UPDATE +6.57s 4 3.35/20.08 ( 9.02/54.13 unaccelerated)
event8 GESTURE_SWIPE_UPDATE +6.57s 4 3.35/20.69 ( 9.02/55.77 unaccelerated)
event8 GESTURE_SWIPE_UPDATE +6.58s 4 2.74/19.17 ( 7.38/51.67 unaccelerated)
event8 GESTURE_SWIPE_UPDATE +6.59s 4 3.04/23.12 ( 8.20/62.34 unaccelerated)
event8 GESTURE_SWIPE_UPDATE +6.59s 4 2.74/22.21 ( 7.38/59.88 unaccelerated)
event8 GESTURE_SWIPE_UPDATE +6.60s 4 2.74/21.30 ( 7.38/57.41 unaccelerated)
event8 GESTURE_SWIPE_UPDATE +6.61s 4 2.13/24.34 ( 5.74/65.62 unaccelerated)
event8 GESTURE_SWIPE_UPDATE +6.62s 4 1.83/22.82 ( 4.92/61.52 unaccelerated)
event8 GESTURE_SWIPE_UPDATE +6.62s 4 1.52/25.56 ( 4.10/68.90 unaccelerated)
event8 GESTURE_SWIPE_UPDATE +6.63s 4 1.52/25.86 ( 4.10/69.72 unaccelerated)
event8 GESTURE_SWIPE_UPDATE +6.64s 4 0.91/26.78 ( 2.46/72.18 unaccelerated)
event8 GESTURE_SWIPE_UPDATE +6.65s 4 0.91/27.38 ( 2.46/73.82 unaccelerated)
event8 GESTURE_SWIPE_UPDATE +6.65s 4 0.61/25.86 ( 1.64/69.72 unaccelerated)
event8 GESTURE_SWIPE_UPDATE +6.66s 4 0.61/28.91 ( 1.64/77.92 unaccelerated)
event8 GESTURE_SWIPE_UPDATE +6.67s 4 0.61/28.30 ( 1.64/76.28 unaccelerated)
event8 GESTURE_SWIPE_UPDATE +6.67s 4 0.91/30.12 ( 2.46/81.20 unaccelerated)
event8 GESTURE_SWIPE_UPDATE +6.68s 4 0.61/29.82 ( 1.64/80.38 unaccelerated)
event8 GESTURE_SWIPE_UPDATE +6.69s 4 0.00/19.78 ( 0.00/53.31 unaccelerated)
event8 GESTURE_SWIPE_END +6.71s 4
See also discussion here where it was suggested that I move it to the gnome-shell
issue tracker.