Wrong pinch direction on a FocalTech touchpad

Question

I'm using a FocalTech touchpad (Asus R556LB)

It wasn't detected by default so I installed the 4.1.2 kernel. Now almost all the gestures but the pinch gesture are detected correctly.

When I move the two fingers apart in order to zoom in, the content zooms out (in Firefox I have to keep control pressed)

Is there any way to fix it?

What is Ubuntu version? How did you setup zoom feature? These features are not related to the kernel driver. They are implemented in user space drivers. — Pilot6, Aug 01 '15 at 15:49
I'm using the 14.04 packages. It worked out of the box after installing 4.1.2 (at least on Cinnamon) — marmistrz, Aug 01 '15 at 16:31

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 01 '15 at 16:40

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Pinch gesture is not supported in Ubuntu, at least without special setup.

Pressing Ctrl and trying to pinch is actually two-finger scrolling. That results in scaling in browsers.

answered Aug 01 '15 at 16:40

Pilot6

In Google Maps the zoom is present too (and inverted as well) – marmistrz Aug 01 '15 at 19:06
As I said it is not pinch at all. Just move two fingers up or down with pressed Ctrl. – Pilot6 Aug 01 '15 at 19:31
In embedded Google Maps the pinch gesture works (in an inverted way) even without control. – marmistrz Aug 02 '15 at 15:08
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The third time: this is not pinch. In Gmaps just scrolling is zoom. Same as e.g. in evince. Am I not clear? Did you try just scrolling? – Pilot6 Aug 02 '15 at 15:10
And is it possible to set it up manually? – marmistrz Aug 02 '15 at 15:57
As far as I know in Ubuntu with unity it is not possible. With other DE with libinput it must be. – Pilot6 Aug 02 '15 at 15:58
I'm not using Unity anyway (Cinnamon instead) – marmistrz Aug 02 '15 at 16:01
You are right, it is indeed scrolling – marmistrz Aug 18 '15 at 08:24

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