Press and Hold on iOS devices.

[Sean Pierce]

I can't seem to perform a press and hold on a button, when I'm connected to a Siemens HMI via noVNC.
I can do this via a desktop browser with a mouse.
When I press an hold with my iOS device nothing seems to happen.

**Expected behavior**
a press and hold from a touch devices would be equivalent to a click and hold from a Desktop Browser

**Client (please complete the following information):**
 - OS: iOS 16.1.1
 - Browser: chrome, safari
 - Browser version: [e.g. 22]

**Server (please complete the following information):**
 - noVNC version: 1.2.0
 - VNC server: Windows CE
 - WebSocket proxy: websockify

is there any way to get this to work?

Also I see in the readme on git  there is support for touch gestures, but I can not find any more information anywhere about what gestures are supported and how to use them...

thanks

[Pierre Ossman]

On 01/12/2022 03:00, Sean Pierce wrote:
>
> is there any way to get this to work?
>
> Also I see in the readme on git there is support for touch gestures, but I
> can not find any more information anywhere about what gestures are
> supported and how to use them...
>

Unfortunately, we do indeed lack documentation for them, as we didn't
have an obvious place for it. For now, you can look at ThinLinc's
documentation, which uses noVNC as a component:

https://www.cendio.com/resources/docs/tag/client_gestures.html#client-gestures

As for your specific problem, I think that is somewhat expected. Press
and hold on a touch devices will give you a right click. I'm afraid we
don't have any settings to override that at the moment. :/

Regards
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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?

[Sean Pierce]

Thank you. Makes sense

I figured out how to make changes in the code to to achieve what I need