DeeJanuzandClaude Opus 5.5
540d8c425c
The 3D mouse drives SteamVR's laser through the ft_pointer virtual controller, so its events reach the screens the same way a controller's do. The filter held every press, which turned the mouse's short drags (selecting a character or two, nudging a slider) into clicks. Mark button events from hand controllers and start the filter only on those. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
1.7 KiB
Controller desktop click stability
Trigger presses reach KDE immediately, but controller motion within 8 logical pixels of the press stays at that position until release. Releasing without a motion outside this zone delivers the click at the original position, even if the hand moved during release. Moving outside the zone begins a normal drag immediately; returning to the zone does not turn it back into a click. There is no hold-duration timer.
This filters overlay pointer content events on desktop monitors only, and only
presses from hand controllers start it. The 3D mouse (whose laser comes from the
ft_pointer virtual controller), SteamVR UI, separate screen grab bars and
floating-app title-bar carrying are unaffected. Multi-button gestures keep their
existing behavior. A motion onto another desktop monitor starts a drag;
cross-monitor motion is not stabilized.
CLI (runtime preferences, reset to 8 on desktop restart):
input/ft-clickctl status
input/ft-clickctl threshold 8
input/ft-clickctl threshold 0 # disable without a restart
Thresholds are 0–64 logical pixels, normalized to each panel's KDE scale. Status reports held state, suppressed motions, stabilized clicks and drags. Changing the threshold while a controller button is held is refused.
This is a separate contribution from desktop mouse/controller ownership. Its hardware validation must check small controls, intentional text selection, long presses, cross-monitor dragging and simultaneous mouse use. The existing renderer laser remains tracked; this change stabilizes desktop input rather than smoothing the visual laser. Default threshold is a starting point to test.
Run scripts/test-controller-click.sh for the isolated gesture-state tests.