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| author | Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net> | 2020-03-21 21:03:32 +1000 |
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| committer | Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net> | 2020-03-22 09:34:22 +1000 |
| commit | d6eef77dd240f5514c1a5b1d08ad268d3b86c64d (patch) | |
| tree | 7a8d53fe826fa2f325e11762991462b4e84a7365 /doc | |
| parent | bf5229a601813293477d52797935673ccf09d875 (diff) | |
| download | libinput-d6eef77dd240f5514c1a5b1d08ad268d3b86c64d.tar.gz | |
touchpad: ratelimit the touch jump tests
In most cases these days touch jumps aren't actually fixable, they don't have
any good heuristics we can employ to remove them. And, luckily, in most cases
it doesn't matter because the users only notice the issue because of the error
message. To avoid spamming the user's log, let's ratelimit it.
Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/user/touchpad-jumping-cursors.rst | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/user/touchpad-jumping-cursors.rst b/doc/user/touchpad-jumping-cursors.rst index d09cd444..50df6715 100644 --- a/doc/user/touchpad-jumping-cursors.rst +++ b/doc/user/touchpad-jumping-cursors.rst @@ -14,6 +14,9 @@ position. When libinput detects a cursor jump it prints a bug warning to the log with the text **"Touch jump detected and discarded."** and a link to this page. +.. note:: This warning is ratelimited and will stop appearing after a few + times, even if the touchpad jumps continue. + In most cases, this is a bug in the kernel driver and to libinput it appears that the touch point moves from its previous position. The pointer jump can usually be seen in the :ref:`libinput record <libinput-record>` output for the device: |