Basically I want to begin migrating my Macbook Pro to Ubuntu Touch, while only making changes in the GUI. I need to expose the apple touchpad to the desktop as a touch surface, rather than mouse.
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You can flag it as duplicate. – Pilot6 May 29 '15 at 21:38
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You need to edit xinput, which interprets the input methods for interaction with applications. Allow it to see both the touchscreen and the mouse via the same abstraction, then configure this abstraction to accept both styles of input. Then merge the wacom tablet app with the mouse and touchpad app.
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That other question is obsolete. Now kernel drivers can report abs co-ordinates to user space. But updating xorg is not useful, since Ubuntu is moving to Mir. – Pilot6 May 29 '15 at 22:08
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It depends on hardware. You need to look waht kernel driver reports to user space first, then look at user space driver. I am involved a little in touchpad driver development, but never dealt with apple . – Pilot6 May 29 '15 at 22:39
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You can use evemu-record to see it. Also you can look at the driver code. – Pilot6 May 30 '15 at 06:27
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the output is from a hybrid keyboard-mouse device, and it shows output only for the keyboard – Trey Gordon May 31 '15 at 22:44