Sincere thanks for this posting, adding a switch for multi-touch would be much appreciated.The cause of the issue here is indeed the use of mouse emulation.
The reason for using mouse emulation is that it is not currently possible to generate a double-click event on the touch screen via the touch handling in labwc, and this basically renders the file manager useless, as all navigation in the file manager is activated by double-clicks by default (although there is an option in the preferences to change this to single clicks).
So in order to render the file manager usable, we have chosen to use the touch screen to emulate mouse events by default instead of generating touch events, and this prevents any multi-touch behaviour.
If you wish to regain the multi-touch behaviour, as suggested above, change the mouseEmulation option to "no" in the rc.xml config file and reboot - although, as above, this will prevent double-tap behaviour and also introduces a few oddities elsewhere in touch behaviour which you may notice.
As there seem to be sufficient people who do want the multi-touch behaviour back, I will look at adding a switch in the GUI - probably in the Screen Configuration tool - to allow users to easily select the desired behaviour. (Obviously in an ideal world we wouldn't need to do this and could have double-tap co-existing with multi-touch - hopefully it will be possible to reach that point in future, but it isn't possible at the moment.)
Statistics: Posted by JamieLaing — Wed May 14, 2025 7:10 pm