Questions on usage about libsgestures HOT 3 CLOSED

but I'm trying to build just a static config to run on another machine with the understanding that if I need a config change, I'll have to do it on the builder and reinstall on the target.

Then you don't have to care about sgestures.sh

The default writer will be sufficent if you use libinput. All it does is translates events into sgestures format.

The way I used to use it:

sgestures-libinput-writer | sgestures

Now you can modify the source slightly and make this a single program (see the tests). I'm open to add an option to the makefile to make it easier to do so.

There are 2 reasons I separated them by default.

1. The first is to make it easy to change the config on the fly without dropping events. Ie I could have a gesture that tells sgestures (the reader not the writer) to restart it self and therefore load the new configuration. If I restarted both, then I may lose the current write.
2. The second is to run the writer as a system service and the reader as my local user. I start the reader from my on login generally from my xinit, but don't want to start multiple writers if I happened to login in twice. Also don't want to run the reader as root as then it won't automatically know my X display (and for security issues).

I'm under the impression that neither of these is relevant to you so there isn't a reason to have 2 separate programs. But in case you are interested, see mqbus for how I get the 2 programs to talk to each other

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I'm under the impression that neither of these is relevant to you

I've been using Touchegg which is similar in that it has a system service and user client so that's ok with me, and it was working fine, but after using navboard and then going through your repos, I noticed libsgestures and had to try it because it seems like a lighter solution than Touchegg.

But in case you are interested, see mqbus for how I get the 2 programs to talk to each other

Ah! I think this is the piece I was missing. I will investigate.

Thanks again for the reply and the awesome software.

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I think I understand enough now to close this. Thanks.

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