I just got this 13" Dell XPS13-9333 laptop ( AKA Sputnik - http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/xps-13-linux/pd ). Personally, I was hoping to be able to use the touch-screen a lot, but it has been buggy to the point of being useless for everything from playing flash games to clicking on buttons and opening programs. I was wondering if these issues were just happening to me or if these problems were systemic across the model as a whole?
The touch-screen issues are organized according to number of fingers:
One finger touch issues:
- Sometimes fails to click (or do anything) when you tap,
- Sometimes drags instead of clicks (regardless of how high you set the drag threshold in "Touchpad and Mouse" or how quickly you tap the screen),
- Randomly seems to double click (in a flash game that I was playing)
- Mouse moves to an arbitrary point on screen just after a click occurs.
Two finger touch issues:
Two finger touch doesn't do anything, despite there being a functional three and four finger touch. On the touch-pad, two finger touch right-clicks. Shouldn't the same behavior occur on the touch-screen?
Three finger touch issues:
Sometimes three finger touch brings up these white arrows that let me move and resize windows. Other times, three finger touch does nothing. Somewhat inconsistent.
Four finger touch:
Perfectly brings up the Ubuntu launch menu every time. The only thing that works consistently is the four-finger touch gesture.
So, for anyone else with the Dell Sputnik, are these touchscreen issues just on my computer, or are they systemic to the XPS13 Developers Edition model as a whole?
p.s. If the issue is widespread, I would like for a bug report about it to please be filed. I tried, but there were too many procedures, and when I ran "ubuntu-bug" in the terminal I did not know how to classify it or what package the bug was coming from.
Dell's ProSupport team couldn't help me at all. I tried with them for several days.
