Touch gestures

Enables page turning with the touch screen by emulatig hardware button presses

Features

touch with 2 fingers, around 10-11cm apart to toggle between SwipeOnly, SwipeAndTouch or Disabled

swipe down to show the current time (by default UTC, timezone info needs to be set on the device, overwrite /etc/localtime)

when SwipeOnly:

swipe left/right to turn pages

swipe up to execute a hardcoded script ~/scripts/swipeup.sh

when SwipeAndTouch:

touch left/right 1/3 of the screen to turn pages (except upper and left 100 px where the toolbar usually is)

Compilation

install the dev tools from remarkable

source /usr/local/oecore-x86_64/environment-setup-cortexa9hf-neon-oe-linux-gnueabi
qmake
make

Installation

Easy

ssh to the device

paste the following code

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ddvk/remarkable-touchgestures/master/install.sh -O- |sh

Manual

copy touch.service to /etc/systemd/system/

copy touchinjector to /home/root/

SSH to the device

systemctl start touch

systemctl enable touch (to enable on boot).

TODO

• fix/setup the CI
• add unit tests
• make it configurable
• framebuffer in C/libremarkable