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["Duncan M. McGreggor" <duncan.mcgreggor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello memtali,

I'm forwarding this to the multi-touch-dev mail list so that the  
appropriate engineers can answer your questions.

Folks, be sure to reply all, so that memtali get this...

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On Feb 15, 2011, at 7:24 AM, memetali wrote:

Hi,

Sorry to disturb you but when I couldn't get any reply from the page I
wanted to write to you. I would appreciate any answer. And I also
thought that I would be helpful about the compatibility of your
programs, because I use Dell XT2. As far as I know the multi-touch
project is developed on XT2

I have a Dell Latitude XT2. The reason why I bought this computer is
because I wanted to use a tablet with Ubuntu. I have been using Ubuntu
for the last 3 years with any alternatives. So I am experienced in using
it.

First I installed 10.10 desktop edition. And tried everything I will
mention above which I later done in Unity Netbook Edition . I felt no
change, so I uninstalled Desktop edition and installed Unity Netbook
Edition. Because I have found out that multi-touch support is coming
directly with UNE from https://lists.launchpad.net/multi-touch-
dev/msg00218.html . But support was not pre-installed.

For multi-touch support I downloaded utouch, utouch-gesturetest, utouch-
geis-tools and utouch-grail-tools from software center. Nothing changed.

I have found Canonical Multitouch page https://launchpad.net/canonical-
multitouch . There I found the ppas for utouch which are deb
http://ppa.launchpad.net/utouch-team/utouch/ubuntu maverick main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/utouch-team/utouch/ubuntu maverick
main. I have added them to software sources then updated. I first
upgraded the ones I have installed before. Then I installed ginn.
Meanwhile I have found out that there is a new place where it writes
"utouch" under "paid software" in the software center. I entered there
and installed hid-3m-pct-dkms, hid-dkms, hid-magicmouse-dkms, hid-ntrig-
dkms, libgrip-0.1-0, libgrip-0.1-dev, libutouch-geis-dev, libutouch-
geis-doc, libutouch-geis1, synaptics-dkms.

I read this document
https://docs.google.com/View?id=dfkkjjcj_1482g457bcc7&pli=1

Then I ran ginn and realized some multi-touch functions are working and
ginn can define them. So far I have found out some working multi-touch
functions. When ginn is running, in openoffice and inkscape I can
control the zoom function by pinching my two fingers; in firefox I can
scroll by moving two fingers up and down, but when ginn is not working
these functions don't work. However without ginn is working, by pinching
my three fingers, all the windows are seen on the desktop and I can
choose any of them.

These are all the multi-touch functions I could found out. Now I would
like to ask following questions:

• Is there an interface where I can see the preferences of multi-touch
functions?
• As far as I understood from canonical-multitouch page in launcpad
utouch-geis, utouch-grail are programs with interfaces, are they
installed in my computer or do I have to install them from .tar.gz
packages in launchpad? (I couldn't find any .deb packages)
• When I turn the screen to a tablet, the screen doesn't change to
portrait. Is the multi-touch functions also support this or is it
unavailable at the moment?
• When I turn the screen setting to portrait manually from the screen
settings, both the touchpad and the screenpad don't recognize the
screen. So when I try to tap on something on the screen cursor goes to
irrelevant coordinates, is there solution for this?
• I can't see any touch related menus on the screen, which works when a
finger is hold on a certain place on the screen as I found from the
document (https://docs.google.com/View?id=dfkkjjcj_1482g457bcc7&pli=1)
how can I activate this?
• Does the multi-touch functions also support multi-touch in the
touchpad(I mean the one under the keyboard which is used as the mouse)?