libinput applies averaging to the velocity of most pointer devices. Averaging
the velocity makes the motion look smooth and may be of benefit to bad input
devices. For good devices, however, it comes at the unfortunate price of
decreased accuaracy.
This change turns velocity averaging off by default (sets ntrackers to 2 instead
of 16) and allows for it to be turned back on via a quirk, for bad devices which
require it.
This looked good on paper but clearly no-one (including myself) ever tested this
in a real-life situation or they would've noticed that the constant factor is
missing, causing a segfault on the first two-finger scroll event, touchpad
gesture or button scrolling.
Adding the constant factor makes the API much worse and the benefit is
unclear, so out of the window it goes. We can revisit this for libinput 1.12
but this isn't going to make the next release.
This reverts commit d8bd650540.
Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
Found by scan-build, running ptraccel-debug --mode=sequence --nevents=5
would use garbage custom_deltas.
Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
Fixes the dead code issue introduced in
822c97a1c2, print_accel was always
true so the rest of the code never got triggered.
Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
This is virtually the only one that matters at this point, the others may help
but they're usually more confusing than helpful.
Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
This adds a third profile to the available profiles to map device-specific
speed to an acceleration factor, fully defined by the caller.
There has been a consistent call for different acceleration profiles in
libinput, but very little specifics in what actually needs to be changed.
"faster horses" and whatnot (some notable exceptions in e.g. bug 101139).
Attempts to change the actual acceleration function will likely break things
for others.
This approach opens up the profile itself to a user-specific acceleration
curve. A caller can set an acceleration curve by defining a number of points
on that curve to map input speed to an output factor. That factor is applied
to the input delta.
libinput does relatively little besides mapping the deltas to the
device-specific speed, querying the curve for that speed and applying that
factor. The curve is device-specific, the input speed is in device units/ms.
Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
Bluetooth wreaks havoc with the timestamp of the input events coming
from the touchpad, enable timestamp smoothing support to counter this.
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
Switch to a pure factor with a max scaled after a function. The offset is just
0 now (will be removed eventually). Both are determined with a function based
on a linear/exponential regression of a sample set of data pairs.
Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
The range that matters is 0-200, maybe up to 400 if you account for really
fast movements. But to match other, published, accel curves default to up to
1000 mm/s. It's easy enough in gnuplot to reduce the range.
Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
We used to normalize all deltas to equivalents of a 1000dpi mouse before
passing it into the acceleration functions. This has a bunch of drawbacks, not
least that we already have to un-normalize back into device units for a few
devices already (trackpoints, tablet, low-dpi mice).
Switch the filter code over to use device units, relying on the dpi set
earlier during filter creation to convert to normalized. To make things easy,
the output of the filter code is still normalized data, i.e. data ready to be
handed to the libinput caller.
No effective functional changes. For touchpads, we still send normalized
coordinates (for now, anyway). For the various filter methods, we either drop
the places where we unnormalized before or we normalize where needed.
Two possible changes: for trackpoints and low-dpi mice we had a max dpi factor
of 1.0 before - now we don't anymore. This was only the case if a low-dpi
mouse had more than 1000dpi (never true) or a trackpoint had a const accel
lower than 1.0 (yeah, whatever).
Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
The previous approach to pointer acceleration was to initialize the same
motion filter behavior but a different acceleration profile depending on the
hardware (the profile converts a speed to a multiplier for input deltas).
To be more flexible for hardware-specifics, change this into a set of specific
pointer acceleration init functions. This patch has no effective functional
changes, they're still all the same.
The acceleration functions are kept for direct access by the ptraccel-debug
tool.
Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
Reviewed-by: Jonas Ådahl <jadahl@gmail.com>
This reverts commit 8a6825f160.
Aside from introducing bugs, this doesn't really help with anything, it adds a
requirement to rename everything to make clear where we're using µs and where
we're using ms and that just clutters up the code.
Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
Acked-by: Jonas Ådahl <jadahl@gmail.com>
There is no need here to use µs since we're just handling speeds/thresholds,
not actual events where a ms granularity can be too high.
Moving back to ms lets us drop a bunch of zeroes that clutter up the code, and
since the acceleration functions are a bit magic anyway, having the various
1000.0 factors in there makes it even less obvious.
Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
Reviewed-by: Jonas Ådahl <jadahl@gmail.com>
In order to provide higher precision event time stamps, change the
internal time measuring from milliseconds to microseconds.
Microseconds are chosen because it is the most fine grained time stamp
we can get from evdev.
The API is extended with high precision getters whenever the given
information is available.
Signed-off-by: Jonas Ådahl <jadahl@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
Currently unused, but store the ratio of DPI:default DPI for later use.
Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Leftover from the initial (out-of-tree) implementation where we updated motion
in place. That hasn't been true since libinput switched to type-safe
coordinates.
Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
To quote Bryce Harrington from [1]:
"MIT has released software under several slightly different licenses,
including the old 'X11 License' or 'MIT License'. Some code under this
license was in fact included in X.org's Xserver in the past. However,
X.org now prefers the MIT Expat License as the standard (which,
confusingly, is also referred to as the 'MIT License'). See
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/tree/COPYING
When Wayland started, it was Kristian Høgsberg's intent to license it
compatibly with X.org. "I wanted Wayland to be usable (license-wise)
whereever X was usable." But, the text of the older X11 License was
taken for Wayland, rather than X11's current standard. This patch
corrects this by swapping in the intended text."
libinput is a fork of weston and thus inherited the original license intent
and the license boilerplate itself.
See this thread on wayland-devel here for a discussion:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2015-May/022301.html
[1] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2015-June/022552.html
Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jonas Ådahl <jadahl@gmail.com>
Prints the various pointer accel behaviors into a format understood by
gnuplot, which then provides prettiness.
Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
