Implement pen and touch support for Linux #2017
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Description
The first commit resolves a longstanding issue with how Linux input was treating absolute mouse input. Rather than emulating an absolute pointing device, Sunshine was actually emulating a single-touch touchscreen. This lead to all sorts of strange things depending on how the desktop environment treats touch input. Most commonly, it caused the cursor to disappear when not moving or mouse clicks to go to the wrong window. Now we behave like the Linux vmmouse driver with separate absolute and relative mouse devices.
The second commit implements native support for pen and touch on Linux. I've tested with a few apps under a GNOME Wayland session plus
evtestand the events look sane to me.Testing checklist:
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Issues Fixed or Closed
Fixes #1828
Closes #1706 (superseded)
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