GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 753341
Implement drag lock support
Last modified: 2021-07-05 13:51:33 UTC
See https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85577 for reference. Drag lock is the ability to keep a logical button down even when the physical button has been released. evdev currently supports this, with the ability to specify which phys button should hold which logical button down. in X, putting drag lock into the driver (or server, but it's in the drivers already) is the only way to support this. In Wayland, the compositor can and should implement this. libinput won't implement drag lock, putting it there hides it away from the UI, makes it impossible to show hints to the user that it activated, etc. so for the X11+libinput case we'll implement this in the xf86-input-libinput driver, but for the Wayland case this needs to be implemented in the compositor.
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