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LXer: Awesome Ubuntu Multitouch Demo in Dell Tablet

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http://www.linuxquestions.org – Published at LXer: Ubuntu uTouch multitouch support was one the most striking inclusion into the just released Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat. We had demo videos showcasing Ubuntu's new found multitouch capabilities before. But following is the best I have seen so far. Watch this beautiful Ubuntu 10.10 multitouch demo in an unknown Dell tablet. Read More... (HowTos)

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I am running Ubuntu 11.10 and have added the mactel ppa but I can't install sudo apt-get install xf86-input-multitouch

I have done this: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mactel-support && sudo apt-get update

expecting this to work: http://bitmath.org/code/multitouch/

I can't find the multitouch driver anywhere!

Update

After using the first answer by Scott Stookey I get this: I guess I will

Multitouch Problem 9 weeks 6 days ago

I've found something that affects multitouch in the galaxy tab 2 7.0. When I put two or more fingers on the screen in apps that needs multitouch(dead trigger,maps,chrome) and move them (this is hard to explain in words) the app will have 'jittery' movement and sometimes the multitouch will 'break'(pinch to zoom will stop midway).

I bought the WeTab recently and installed Ubuntu... For some multitouch gestures I had to install uTouch,

What other widgets/applications/tweaks are there to make Ubuntu feel more like a tablet OS? (e.g. Hide mouse cursor, custom login screen, etc.)

Just list as many as you can find! Thank you very much!

I'm trying to enable some multitouch gestures to mirror what OS X is capable of doing, such as brushing three fingers across the trackpad to switch desktops, swiping two fingers to navigate back in nautilus or firefox etc. I'm trying to use touchegg, but I'm not sure if ubuntu sees my trackpad as a device with more than two finger support.

Hello!

I have some USB device (ActivBoard 587 Pro), which has multitouch support. So how can I learn about multitouch support by it's linux driver? Maybe I need run some programs like xinput or mtview?

Maybe a bit late to mention, but an open source multitouch touchpad driver was released. Version 1.0 of Linux MultiTouch is a fact. This is a major improvement over previous versions of the driver. It features the new 2.0 multi-touch engine which gives improvement on performance, customizability, and features. It is considered that the Linux Multi-Touch driver is now complete.

I have Ubuntu 11.10 installed in dual boot in a MacBook Pro 5.1.

I have installed the xserver-xorg-input-multitouch Multitouch X input driver, but I'm not sure I like it (it's too sensitive and moves too fast). So I want to get back to the default touchpad settings, but I can't.

If I remove remove the Multitouch X driver via synaptics, the touchpad won't work anymore.

 People in the Apple Ubuntuforum are working hard on an alternative of the synaptics driver for multitouch touchpads, especially the one used in recent MacBooks. On the 15th of April v1.0-alpha2 was released. The following improvements were made: read more

i have started to try out some more from Ubuntu as dualboot on my laptop (Lenovo E530 with 640M). In Windows my touchpads gestures are working with three fingers to emulate back and forward (in a browser for example) which is awesome.