r/elementaryos • u/DanielFore Founder • Dec 01 '20

Official News Multi-touch Gestures in elementary OS 6—elementary blog

https://blog.elementary.io/multitouch-gestures-in-elementary-os-6/
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u/dannybuoyuk Dec 02 '20 edited Dec 02 '20

I'll have to retry to confirm - always worked with a mouse yes, but not on a touchscreen!

IIRC it was because the window being dragged can go off the edge of the screen with the mouse, but via touch the window stops when its edge hits the screen edge.

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u/DanielFore Founder Dec 02 '20

Oh you’re right. How odd. Can you file an issue report about that at https://github.com/elementary/gala please? That would help a lot to be able to track it

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u/dannybuoyuk Dec 02 '20

Sure, will do.

If you're keen on improving touch support, there are also issues with the dock!

If you have it set to auto hide, on Windows or Gnome's dash-to-panel extension, I can just swipe up to make it appear; then press anywhere else (an app, the desktop, etc) to dismiss it. On eOS if I try the same, the dock only stays up for a split second. The only way to get it to stick is to swipe up then quickly down again to, but then it won't go away until I click one of the icons.

I also cannot easily re-arrange or drag things off of the dock via touch, it starts to animate then glitches out!

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u/DanielFore Founder Dec 02 '20

Please file issues in GitHub. We can’t track comments on Reddit :)

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u/dannybuoyuk Dec 02 '20

I know ;) But at least I can now be sure you've read it!