I recently got a Thinkpad Yoga, put Mint on it, all good. I love it. Only issue is, sometimes I like to fold the laptop and use it like a tablet when I’m not going to be doing much typing. But the touchscreen is hit or miss.
I’ve managed to get it working perfectly in Firefox where it behaves exactly like an Android tablet or iPad with swipes, taps, and long presses. But when I try it outside of Firefox, the behaviour is different. For example, a swipe acts like a click and drag with a mouse, rather than scrolling, which is the behaviour I want.
I’m a Linux noob, so pls don’t be too harsh. Is there any universal way to make the touchscreen act like a tablet?
One thing I haven’t seen mentioned, does Mint still use X11? I use Arch with KDE Plasma, also on a yoga, and it’s just as unusable with X11 as you say. It just emulates a mouse pointer. Wayland has proper touchscreen support which just works.
Yeah, Cinnamon has Wayland experimentally, but still uses X11 by default.
I’ve tried Wayland on Mint, and it had a major bug where the panel just didn’t work at all. Tapping and even clicking with the actual trackpad did nothing.