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[dan moore <dan.moore@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Does anyone know what is the status with 'greedy mode' support?  It
appears that there is no movement on either this or the ability to
disable gestures resulting in various onliune postings for how to hack
the .cpp to disable these.

Personally: Unity's current denial of multi-touch access to applications
essentially makes the operating system unusable for certain
applications.  Try drawing with 3 fingers under Unity. Or are we saying
the Unity design pre-dates and outranks painting?

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/898853

Title:
  Touch: Unity hijacks multitouch gestures

Status in Unity:
  Won't Fix
Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  It seems that unity hijacks multitouch input, this renders 3rd party
  multitouch apps useless.

  Steps to reproduce:
  ----------------------------

      1 Install touchegg by "sudo apt-get install touchegg"
      2 Start touchegg in terminal
      3 Try out some multi-touch gestures and notice only upto 2 finger touch are recognized
      4 Now either use metacity, gnome-shell or compiz (with unity plugin disabled) as your window manager
      5 Repeat 2, 3 and notice all gestures defined in ~/.config/touchegg/touchegg.conf work fine.

  I think the best solution here is to remove multi-touch capabilities
  from unity and put them in a separate compiz plugin like drag handles
  is now. This would allow easy customization of gestures and the plugin
  can be turned off so 3rd party apps can take control.

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