Which Linux distro are you using?
Ubuntu
Which release version?
24.04.4 LTS
Which kernel are you using?
6.17.0-35-generic
Which BIOS version are you using?
3.25
Which Framework Laptop 13 model are you using?
11th Gen Intel®
So normally X11 does not fully support 3 & 4-finger gestures on the trackpad, only Wayland, which was a compromise that I made to have a more stable GNOME for compatibility with the programs that I use regularly. So I was happily surprised to see 3 & 4-finger gestures work on the FW13 touchscreen in X11. It behaves similar to an iPad in terms of intuitive gestures (if you’re used to that platform). It’s not quite as snappy but very close (sometimes it takes a repeat of a gesture before it activates -specifically for switching workplaces- but rarely… not often enough to be an issue for me). Scrolling in a window works great, activating and closing a window works fine and touch can’t wake the laptop from idle sleep which makes sense. The touchscreen does drain the battery a bit more while awake, overnight deep sleep battery draw hasn’t changed which I’m not surprised by.
The only caveat is that the onscreen GNOME keyboard keeps popping up, even when disabled in gsettings and when attempted to disable it using ChatGPT’s recommended workarounds. When the workaround did eventually worked momentarily, the onscreen keyboard would reappear after interacting with GTK apps (i.e. Text Editor). I recommend some caution when doing this because messing with GNOME/OSK settings caused Chrome to freeze for me after the onscreen keyboard appeared so I had to back track a bit. In terms of following ChatGPT’s recommendations, I never do anything that’s a permanent fix because of instances like the one I just mentioned.
Overall, I’m quite pleasantly surprised by how much use I’m getting out of the FW13 touchscreen. It is more than I expected. Yeah the onscreen keyboard is annoying but that’s really the only issue I’ve experienced thus far. I’d be interested to know other ppl’s impressions of the FW13 touchscreen on Linux and any workarounds that actually worked.