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Touchpad Mode

Open linuxtopia opened this issue 1 year ago • 2 comments

Hello,

I see it is for mouse click actions but if you add touchpad mode support by double touch for right click and one touch for left click without pie menu disappearing that could work properly. Unfortunately on touchpad menu disappears instantly when fingers leave the touchpad.

In the settings users can enable touchpad mode or mouse mode.

Is this possible?

I think this extension has great potential but missing touchpad mode.

linuxtopia avatar Dec 31 '24 11:12 linuxtopia

Unfortunately, it is not technically possible for a Chrome extension to intercept complicated touchpad gestures, such as "fingers down", "fingers up" etc. On Apple Macbook you could use the "long left click" activation method using the trackpad, because it sends mouse clicks based on finger pressure, but there is nothing more that we can do.

emvaized avatar Jul 24 '25 16:07 emvaized

On a second thought, I think we could add a new trigger to show the menu when keyboard hotkey is pressed, and this way it could be easier to use the extension with a touchpad.

So that: you press the hotkey > circle menu is shown > you move the cursor over the desired action > hot key is released > highlighted action is selected

Let me know what do you think about such workaround.

emvaized avatar Jul 27 '25 00:07 emvaized