Some applications don't interpret taps on touchscreen correctly
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Some applications don't interpret taps on touchscreen correctly
Hi!
I just installed Chrome, and so far I only have one complaint. My laptop has a touchscreen, and when I tap on a link, it acts like I only moved the mouse, but didn't click on it. I've noticed similar behavior in other applications, and even in my window manager (awesome). Is there a global setting for how the touchscreen should be interpreted, or something similar?
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I thought with touch-screen on a desktop OS the first tap moves the mouse pointer and the next "clicks". I know that's how VLC clients for iOS tend to work and I can't think of any other way of doing it with a mouse and touch screen present?
Edi: iOS does something similarly natively in that a tap isn't always designated as a click especuially if it's not done precisely on the link. Blackberry OS (the old one) mixes pointer and touch so does similar. Can't recall how Android does it.
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Originally Posted by jefro
A touch screen is a mouse for most things.
I'd assume that the computer is under load and your tap may need to be more of a hold to get it to read the request correctly.
So how does one usually move the pointer?
I'm tryig to imagine XFCE4 with a touch screen and wondering what it does about things like text selection and missing the URL deliberately.
I know this old Blackberry has some odd conventions and Windows Phone Edition was even stranger but, to me, more straight forward than iOS.
I've usually seen what 273 described: the mouse moves, then clicks on wherever I tapped.
I highly doubt that it's a load issue. I have htop open, and all 4 cores are staying below 5%, I'm using roughly 1/16th of my RAM, no swap usage, and I'm not seeing any change in behavior. So if it's load-related, that's one very picky touchscreen.
I should probably mention that it's a Dell Inspiron 15R laptop that came preloaded with Win8.
Thanks!
EDIT: Also, it's the entire browser (scroll, tabs, settings menu, etc.) that fails to react to taps, not just the webpage.
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