Re: status of touchscreen support

[Po Lu]

Ken Olum <kdo@cosmos.phy.tufts.edu> writes:

> What is the status of touchscreen support?  Up until now, it seemed
> there wasn't any, at least by default.  Thus tap became mouse left and
> long touch became mouse right, and at least it was somewhat usable.  Now
> I upgraded to Ubuntu 24.04 and emacs 29.3 on my tablet, and now it says
> "<touchscreen-begin> is undefined...<touchscreen-update> is
> undefined...<touchscreen-end> is undefined" and doesn't work at all.
>
> Thanks.
>
>                                         Ken

I suggest upgrading to the development branch of Emacs, where support
for touch screen events is complete on X and Android systems.  It's one
of my regrets that it wasn't possible to finish this in time for Emacs
29.1, but things are as they are.