1833232 - Swipe gestures not available in Flathub version

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: Widget: Gtk, defect)

Description

[fazer227]

Steps to reproduce:

I installed the Flathub version of Firefox on Linux. I wanted to use the swipe gestures for back, forward and zooming.

Note: I use an other version while reporting this bug.

Actual results:

All these gestures, (which work on every other Firefox installation, I think) doesn't work in this Flathub version.

Expected results:

The swipe gestures should have worked (two fingers from left to right to go back, two fingers from right to left to go forward and two fingers pinching for zooming).

Comment 1

[fazer227]

I forgot to mention that I mean the touchpad-gestures of course...

Comment 2

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Core::DOM: Navigation' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 3

[Robert Mader [:rmader]]

AFAIK these gestures require either Wayland (MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1, enabled by e.g. Fedora) or Xinput2 (MOZ_USE_XINPUT2=1, also enabled in Fedora) - i.e. it's expected that they don't work in a stock environment. So this is probably just a duplicate of bug 1752398

Comment 4

[fazer227]

(In reply to Robert Mader [:rmader] from comment #3)

AFAIK these gestures require either Wayland (MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1, enabled by e.g. Fedora) or Xinput2 (MOZ_USE_XINPUT2=1, also enabled in Fedora) - i.e. it's expected that they don't work in a stock environment. So this is probably just a duplicate of bug 1752398

I don't think that it is a problem of the environment. I have discovered this bug in Fedora, so I tried to reproduce it in the Firefox-Flatpak-version of Fedora Flatpak Repo and the swipe gestures worked fine. In the rpm-version the swipe gestures worked too. It is only a bug in the official Flathub-version.

Comment 5

[Robert Mader [:rmader]]

(In reply to fazer227 from comment #4)

I don't think that it is a problem of the environment. I have discovered this bug in Fedora, so I tried to reproduce it in the Firefox-Flatpak-version of Fedora Flatpak Repo and the swipe gestures worked fine. In the rpm-version the swipe gestures worked too. It is only a bug in the official Flathub-version.

Well, the Fedora builds of Firefox - both flatpak and rpm - enable both Wayland and Xinput2. FTR. I can reproduce the issue here when running the official nightly with MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=0 (nightly enables Wayland by default already).

Comment 6

[Jan Horak [:jhorak]]

(In reply to Robert Mader [:rmader] from comment #5)

Well, the Fedora builds of Firefox - both flatpak and rpm - enable both Wayland and Xinput2. FTR. I can reproduce the issue here when running the official nightly with MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=0 (nightly enables Wayland by default already).

Yes, this is correct, we use the launch script which sets both: MOZ_USE_XINPUT2 and MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND. Setting the MOZ_USE_XINPUT2 for the flathub (x11) version enables pinch to zoom, but not the back/forward gestures. You can test by yourself by:

flatpak run --command=sh --env=MOZ_USE_XINPUT2=1 org.mozilla.firefox

Maybe we could enable at least MOZ_USE_XINPUT2 for the flathub flatpak?

Comment 8

[fazer227]

It seem like the bug is fixed however. Now the gestures work fine...

Comment 9

[Martin Stránský [:stransky] (ni? me)]

(In reply to fazer227 from comment #8)

It seem like the bug is fixed however. Now the gestures work fine...

May be caused by Wayland switch.