400 used to be the default DPI for many mice but it it's not anymore. A survey
of mice shows that 400 is still common as one of the pre-configured settings
in switchable multi-resolution gaming mice, but devices with a single
resolution mostly favor 1000 dpi.
Let's make that switch now so that any future changes to the pointer
acceleration code assumes that resolution as a default.
For the touchpad, this has a bad side-effect, caused by our expectation of
mouse vs touchpad behaviours: our acceleration code ignores device type and
provides the same acceleration for the same physical movement. Unfortunately,
we expect touchpads to be significantly slower than mice.
The previous 400 DPI worked because it caused an acceptable slowdown on input.
e.g. on the T440 with a res of 42 units/mm, the scale coefficient was 0.37.
For 1000 DPI as default, this now results in 0.94, i.e. speeding up the
touchpad by a factor of 2.5. That is way too fast.
Adding touchpad-specific filter code is a bigger project, so let's just add a
fixme for now and scale the coefficient back to what it was before the
DPI default change. Effect: touchpad behaves as before.
Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
The filter code is what relies on some default dpi configuration to apply
pointer acceleration and expects the input coordinates to be pre-scaled to
that resolution.
Let's move the define here so we can use it from the touchpad code too.
No functional changes.
Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
To keep the implementation of a filter separate from the users of a filter.
Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
We ran a userstudy, evaluating three different accel methods. Detailed results are
available at:
http://www.who-t.net/publications/hutterer2014_libinput_ptraccel_study.pdf
We found that there was little difference between the method we had in
libinput 0.6 and this three-line function. Users didn't really notice a
difference, but measured data suggests that it has slight advantages in some
use-cases.
The method proposed here is the one labeled "linear" in the paper, its profile
looks roughly like this:
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where the x axis is the speed, y is the acceleration factor.
The first plateau is at the acceleration factor 1 (i.e. unaccelerated
movement), the second plateau is at the max acceleration factor. The threshold
in the code defines where and how long the plateau is.
Differences to the previous accel function:
- both inclines are linear rather than curved
- the second incline is less steep than the current method
From a maintainer's point-of-view, this function is significantly easier to
understand and manipulate than the previous one.
Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
In an attempt to bring method into the madness, normalize the touchpad deltas
to those of a USB mouse with 400 dpi. This way the data we're dealing with in
the acceleration code is of a known quantity.
Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
For better consistency with filter_dispatch(). And move the things around to keep
the consumable API together.
Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
This patch reimplements the simple smooth pointer acceleration profile
from X.org xserver. The algorithm is identical to the classic profile
with a non-zero pointer acceleration threshold.
When support for changable parameters is in place, to get a pointer
acceleration the same as the default classic profile of X.org a
polynomial acceleration profile should be used for when the threshold
parameter is zero.
Signed-off-by: Jonas Ådahl <jadahl@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
We store timestamps in ms since system boot (CLOCK_MONOTONIC). This will wrap
after circa 50 days.
I've considered making our code wrapping safe, but that won't work. We also
use our internal timestamps to program timer-fds for timeouts. And we store
ms in a single integer but the kernel uses 2 integers, one for seconds and
one for usec/nanosec. So at 32 bits our ms containing integer will wrap
in 50 days, while the kernels seconds storing integer lasts a lot longer.
So when we wrap our ms timestamps, we will be programming the timer-fds
with a seconds value in the past.
So change all our internal timestamps to uint64_t to avoid the wrapping
when programming the timer-fds. Note that we move from 64-bit timestamps to
32-bit timestamps when calling the foo_notify_bar functions from
libinput-private.h. Having 64 bit timestamps has no use past this point,
since the wayland input protocol uses 32 bit timestamps (and clients will
have to deal with wrapping).
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
This commit introduces build script configuration for building a shared
library 'libinput.so' containing the evdev input device functionality
from weston.
evdev.c, evdev.h and evdev-touchpad.c are ported to not use the data
structures and API in weston and libwayland-server in order to minimize
dependencies.
The API of filter.c and filter.h are renamed to not include the
'weston_' prefix.
Signed-off-by: Jonas Ådahl <jadahl@gmail.com>
config.h includes were missing in a few files, including input.c, the
lack of which caused the X11 backend to segfault instantly due to not
having an xkbcommon context.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Stone <daniel@fooishbar.org>
Touchpad related code has been rewritten and moved to its own file
accessed by evdev via the dispatch interface.
The various functionality implemented are anti-jitter (don't jumping
around), smoother motions, touch detection, pointer acceleration and
some more.
Pointer acceleration is implemented as one generic part, and one touch
specific part (a profile).
Some ideas and magic numbers comes from xserver and
xf86-input-synaptics.
Signed-off-by: Jonas Ådahl <jadahl@gmail.com>
