Midori Web Browser

How should touch-scrolling work on a touchscreen device?

Asked by Nell Jerram

I have a Linux-based (not Android) phone with a small touchscreen, and would like to try using Midori on that. Specifically, when the content of a web page does not all fit on screen at the same time, I'd like to use my finger to scroll the page up or down, and left or right.

I believe that Midori may support this, but I haven't yet been able to see it in practice. That might be because other parts of my phone system are configured wrongly, or it might be because I have the wrong expectations for what is possible.

So, as the first step, please can you say if Midori supports this behaviour, and - if so - what I should expect to do and to see when it is working?

Thanks - Neil

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Nell Jerram (neil-jerram) said : 		#1

Some related #midori discussion just now:

<MonkeyofDoom> neiljerram: if your touchscreen presents itself to X11 as a touchscreen, this should Just Work in GTK3 builds of midori, no environment variable needed

<MonkeyofDoom> if you're using GTK2 midori, the MIDORI_TOUCHSCREEN functionality is no longer present; the message printed if you set that env variable suggests it was removed in Midori 0.4.9 which is pretty old

<neiljerram> Thanks, MonkeyofDoom. Do you happen to know if the Debian build of midori is with GTK2 or GTK3? (Since I am using Debian.)

<neiljerram> Based on https://packages.debian.org/stretch/midori, it looks like the answer is GTK2.

And I have therefore commented on a Debian bug as you can read at https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=790211#32.

Midori authors, please could you confirm whether the finger scrolling support absolutely requires GTK3?

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Nell Jerram (neil-jerram) said : 		#3

I'd still appreciate an answer to this question!

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