On the off-chance that someone actually looks at this page, let's put the
comment most at risk by a TLDR attention span at the top.
Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
This seems to give me roughly the same behaviour as macos does on the default
0 speed setting.
* Default speed is lower than before by around 30% [1]
* Acceleration kicks in much sooner (130mm/s vs 250mm/s before)
* Acceleration kicks in slower at lower speeds, so the change from 130mm/s to
150mm/s is less than that of 320mm/s to 350mm/s
* The effect of the speed setting is a wide-range constant (de|ac)celeration
[2], which means:
* The unaccelerated baseline up until the threshold now changes with the
speed setting
* The threshold is now the same for all speeds
* The range of the speed setting should now easily cover all desired device
speeds.
* Acceleration is steeper at higher speeds
* Deceleration was left as-is.
[1] This may or may not fix the jumping pointer issues caused by the previous
high defaults. When you have high default acceleration you move the finger
slower. This slow movement caused some touchpads (mostly seen on Lenovos) to
create pointer jumps. These weren't seen on synaptics previously because of a
combination of higher user finger speed (thus not triggering the bug) or just
not being as obvious (2px jump vs 10 px jump).
[2] The speed setting is actually a curve, the closer you get to 1.0 the more
difference you see between two different values. The curve's points are:
-1/0, 0/1, 1/5, so the resolution is closer for slow speeds. We still have
double resolution on the setting though so you'll find what you want.
Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
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>
Well, I say "measure" but really at this point it just reads the
properties/axes and then does it's best to auto-generate a hwdb entry that
matches the user's hardware and sets a fuzz value on the device. Ideally this
reduces the number of hand-holding required in bugzillas. There are plenty of
things that can go wrong, so our fallback is still to throw up our hands and
point to the documentation.
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98839
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>
Especially dot is hard to find for some users, so provide the solution to
their problems right there in the error message.
And because users are likely to just copy/paste, remove the disable-libwacom
option. Save them from themselves...
Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
We expected the first event after TAPPED to be a finger down. If that finger
has been recognised as palm, the finger state isn't TOUCH_BEGIN so we get an
invalid state in our FSM.
libinput bug: 0: invalid tap event TAP_EVENT_PALM in state TAP_STATE_TAPPED
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105370
Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
A set of wireless devices that can scramble the timestamps, so we get
press/release within 8ms even though I doubt the user is capable of doing
this. Since they're generally good quality anyway, let's just disable
debouncing on those until someone complains and we need something more
sophisticated.
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104415
Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
This looks like a libinput bug (well, it does say "libinput bug" on the
package) but it hasn't been that for a long time. The cause is almost always
insufficient motivation to call libinput_dispatch() by the caller, or at least
not doing it with the celerity libinput demands (and deserves, if I may say
so).
Up-, down- or side-grade it to a client bug, so the outrage can be
directed elsewhere, preferably away from me. And add a section to the
documentation, just in case someone actually reads this stuff.
Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
Reviewed-by: Olivier Fourdan <ofourdan@redhat.com>
Sequences to trigger:
- spurious debouncing is enabled
- release a button in IS_DOWN state -> RELEASE_DELAYED
- short timeout triggers RELEASE_WAITING
If a button press now comes before the long timeout expires, we transition to
MAYBE_SPURIOUS where the long timeout may expire. In that case we should
transition to pressed state again.
Reported-by: Vicente Bergas <vicencb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
Unlike the already-existing thumb detection, a touch may be labelled palm at
any time, not just during the initial touch down. This requires full
integration into the tap state machine to unwind properly. For most states, a
palm detection simply ignores the finger and reverts to the most recent state.
One exception is the case of two fingers down, one finger up followed by the
remaining finger detected as a palm finger. This triggers a single-finger tap
but with timestamps that may be from the wrong finger. Since we're within a
short tap timeout anyway this should not matter too much.
The special state PALM_UP is only handled in one condition (DEAD). Once a
touch is a palm we basically skip over it from then on. If we end up in the
DEAD state after a button press we still need to handle the palm up events
accordingly to be able to return to IDLE. That transition also requires us to
have an accurate count of the real fingers down (palms don't count) so we need
a separate nfingers_down counter for tapping.
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103210
Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
The current debouncing code monitors events and switches on when events are
too close together. From then on, any event can be delayed.
Vicente Bergas provided an algorithm that avoids most of these delays:
on a button state change we now forward the change without delay but start a
timer. If the button changes state during that timer, the changes are
ignored. On timer expiry, events are sent to match the hardware state
with the client's view of the device. This is only done if needed.
Thus, a press-release sequence of: PRP sends a single press event, a sequence of
PRPR sends press and then the release at the end of the timeout. The timeout
is short enough that the delay should not be noticeable.
This new mode is called the 'bounce' mode. The old mode is now referred to as
'spurious' mode and only covers the case of a button held down that loses
contact. It works as before, monitoring a button for these spurious contact
losses and switching on. When on, button release events are delayed as before.
The whole button debouncing moves to a state machine which makes debugging a
lot easier. See the accompanying SVG for the diagram.
Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
And instead disable it when we do get a proximity out.
Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
Reviewed-by: Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@gmail.com>
Could be fixed in the kernel, but these tablets are effectively abandoned and
fixing them is a one-by-one issue. Let's put the infrastructure in place to
have this fixed once for this type of device and move on.
Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
Yay-by: Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@gmail.com>
The recommended way to have libinput ignore specific devices so far was to
remove the ID_INPUT* properties from the device. That may also affect other
pieces of the stack that need access to this device.
For the niche case of a device that should only be ignored by libinput but
otherwise be treated normally by the system, we now support the
LIBINPUT_IGNORE_DEVICE property.
If the property is set to "0", it's equivalent to being unset. This gets
around some technical limitations in udev where unsetting a property is
impossible via a hwdb entry.
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102229
Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
Some devices have worn-out switches or just cheap switches that trigger
multiple button events for each press. These can be identified by unfeasably
short time deltas between the release and the next press event. In the
recordings I've seen so far, that timeout is 8ms.
We have a two-stage behavior: by default, we do not delay any events but we
monitor timestamps. The first time a bouncing button is detected we switch to
debounce mode. From then on, release events are delayed slightly to check for
subsequent button events. If one occurs, the releas and press are filtered. If
none occurs, the release event is passed to the caller.
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100057
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>
This reduces unexpected cursor moves when placing the thumb near the border
of trackpoint buttons and upper edge of touchpad.
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101574
Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
The soname will remain fixed now, we're going through all the trouble of
having a proper map file so that we don't have to bump it all the time.
Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
