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Enable better touchscreen usage on linux

See original GitHub issue

Problem Description

Currently, firefoxpwa apps cannot scroll via touch, instead touch events default to selecting text on linux.

Proposed Solution

Enable an option (either via CLI or otherwise) for to set MOZ_USE_XINPUT2=1 on Linux

Additional Information

This also enables Pixel-perfect trackpad scrolling

Workaround

if you’re on Xorg:

echo export MOZ_USE_XINPUT2=1 | sudo tee /etc/profile.d/use-xinput2.sh

then restart computer.

Edit:

If you’re on Wayland:

echo export MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 | sudo tee /etc/profile.d/use-moz-enable-wayland.sh

then restart computer

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 2 years ago
Comments:8 (3 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

3reactions

filips123commented, Dec 17, 2021

Currently firefoxpwa directly launches Firefox binary so it just uses its defaults, while normally /usr/bin/firefox is a shell script that sets MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND and some other environment variables.

I will add a way to specify environment variables that are set when launching Firefox via config (and probably also through extension).

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filips123commented, Sep 15, 2022

Activating Use Wayland should work fine.