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jakfish

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xfce Success on GPD MicroPC 2

GPD has updated its original MPC with more powerful specs and a larger, now touch-capable, screen.

The initial rule-of-thumb is to default to wayland on the MPC2, but wayland presents a multitude of issues.

However, using Debian 13.2 (Gnome) and then installing xfce results in good news--everything eventually works except for double-taps on the touchscreen (single clicks and persistent screen calibration are robust).

Double-tap will work on Gnome/wayland, but I'd obviously rather use xfce.

eriefisher

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Re: xfce Success on GPD MicroPC 2

Can you provide a link to the system?

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jakfish

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Re: xfce Success on GPD MicroPC 2

Willing to help, but not exactly sure what you mean.

eriefisher

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Re: xfce Success on GPD MicroPC 2

I was curious what this "GPD MPC" was with a touch screen. It sounds like what I've been on the hunt for. I'm after a tablet/laptop combo that can run x86_64 Linux.

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jakfish

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Re: xfce Success on GPD MicroPC 2

Ah. Here's a sales link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FNQMVL4L?re … asin_title

And over at discord, there's GPD MPC2 sub-forum: https://discord.com/channels/2434111089 … 4851602613

jakfish

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Re: xfce Success on GPD MicroPC 2

Just a follow-up: uncomfortable with an unholy union of xfce installed over gnome, I did a fresh install of MX Linux 25 xfce.

All is well save for the continued inability to double-click the touchscreen, and if you're using this how-to: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GPD_MicroPC_2, and needing to activate the device's mouse buttons via /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/99-alps-touchpad.conf, xf86-input-synaptics is suggested, but unavailable to MX, and may be deprecated to uselessness in any distro.

One must use instead: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics

eriefisher

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Re: xfce Success on GPD MicroPC 2

I would think libinput would be a better option rather than xf86-input-synaptics. I think it's much more configurable. For me It's just worked out of the box.

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