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frostschutz · 10-13-2018, 11:51 AM

While reading a book with nickel, I'd like to do something akin of displaying a Yes/No popup dialog box, and allow the user to interact with it.

The problem is, nickel will process those touch events and flip pages or do other random things.

Is there a way to make nickel ignore touch events temporarily, so you can go seamlessly from reading to an interactive popup and back to reading?

My attempts so far were unsuccessful:

- (un-)binding the touchscreen driver disables touch, but for nickel it does so permanently; have to re-start nickel entirely to make touch work again.

- freezing nickel (kill SIGSTOP) allows user interaction just fine, but when you unfreeze nickel (kill SIGCONT), it will still process all touch events that happened while frozen

Any ideas?

10-13-2018, 11:51 AM	#1
frostschutz Linux User Posts: 2,282 Karma: 6123806 Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Heidelberg, Germany Device: none	user interaction while nickel is running? While reading a book with nickel, I'd like to do something akin of displaying a Yes/No popup dialog box, and allow the user to interact with it. The problem is, nickel will process those touch events and flip pages or do other random things. Is there a way to make nickel ignore touch events temporarily, so you can go seamlessly from reading to an interactive popup and back to reading? My attempts so far were unsuccessful: - (un-)binding the touchscreen driver disables touch, but for nickel it does so permanently; have to re-start nickel entirely to make touch work again. - freezing nickel (kill SIGSTOP) allows user interaction just fine, but when you unfreeze nickel (kill SIGCONT), it will still process all touch events that happened while frozen Any ideas?