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Chrome touch support in Linux mint

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I am a fan of Linux mint, but there is one tiny little thing that keeps me from using it as a daily driver on my thinkpad x220t and that is the lack of touch support in google chrome or firefox. All I want is to scroll webpages using my touch display just like I do in Windows.

 

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I do not know about Linux Mint, but I always have been have to use the touch screen to scroll sites on google chrome since it has built in support. And I am talking about most of the Ubuntu Flavors, Arch and even Solus as of recently. Firefox then its another story. 

main(){
  extrn a,b,c;
  putchar(a); putchar(b); putchar(c); putchar('!*n');
  }

a 'hell';
b 'o, w';
c 'orld';

 

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Just now, Urishima said:

You mean it doesn't work in Chrome/Firefox specifically, or in general?

 

Have a look at this: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/touchscreen

Yes it's Arch, but the principle is the same.

Touch support is fine across the OS. in fact i find it more responsive than windows.

But I'm talking about google chrome or chromium specifically or even firefox.

my touch drivers are installed correctly and work as intended. but it is broken in chrome.

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2 minutes ago, MarcoTexture said:

Touch support is fine across the OS. in fact i find it more responsive than windows.

But I'm talking about google chrome or chromium specifically or even firefox.

my touch drivers are installed correctly and work as intended. but it is broken in chrome.

Well, I've got nothin'...

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I do not know if this might help but there can be a solution like this in Chromium:

Insert these flags into /etc/chromium/default
CHROMIUM_FLAGS="--touch-devices=10 --enable-pinch"
and you have chromium touchscreen functionality including pinch to zoom and drag scrolling without the need for touchegg at all which eats ram. chromium works directly with the xf86-synaptics-driver to support multitouch in chromium! That is if linux mint uses synaptics and not libinput. I do not know much about mint but its an issue I never encountered with Chrome.  

main(){
  extrn a,b,c;
  putchar(a); putchar(b); putchar(c); putchar('!*n');
  }

a 'hell';
b 'o, w';
c 'orld';

 

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Tried all the suggested solutions. none of em worked for me. :(

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Update: I installed elementary OS Loki 0.4 and it came with a proper touch support(like what you find in Windows) out of the box. and the thing is stable. been using it for couple days and i like it.

I tried other ubuntu based distros but couldn't get touch to work properly. probably bcoz im a noob in linux xD.

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