title: Enabeling touch events in Chrome from touch screen
body: <p>I have a Ubuntu machine with a 24" touchscreen and it is working fine. I can move the mouse, do gestures with several touch points and such so the hardware is working fine. Now I wonder if it is possible to make a browser interpret the events as touch and not as mousedown, mousedrag etc. HTML5 has really good support for touch and multiple touch and I would like to develop web applications for this setup. Does anyone have a clue on how to do this? I've tried enabling the --enable-touch-events switch with no success. Tho it seems that this is only implemented in the ms windows version. </p>
  
  <pre><code>~$ xinput -version
  xinput version 1.6.0
  XI version on server: 2.2
  
  ~$ xinput
  ⎡ Virtual core pointer                      id=2    [master pointer  (3)]
  ⎜   ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer                id=4    [slave  pointer  (2)]
  ⎜   ↳ Advanced Silicon S.A CoolTouch(TM) System id=9    [slave  pointer  (2)]
  ⎜   ↳ USBest Technology SiS HID Touch Controller    id=10   [slave  pointer  (2)]
  ⎜   ↳ Logitech USB Optical Mouse                id=11   [slave  pointer  (2)]
  ⎜   ↳ MCE IR Keyboard/Mouse (nuvoton-cir)       id=14   [slave  pointer  (2)]
  ⎣ Virtual core keyboard                     id=3    [master keyboard (2)]
      ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard               id=5    [slave  keyboard (3)]
      ↳ Power Button                              id=6    [slave  keyboard (3)]
      ↳ Video Bus                                 id=7    [slave  keyboard (3)]
      ↳ Power Button                              id=8    [slave  keyboard (3)]
      ↳ CHICONY HP Basic USB Keyboard             id=12   [slave  keyboard (3)]
      ↳ Nuvoton w836x7hg Infrared Remote Transceiver  id=13   [slave  keyboard (3)]
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I've read about building with the touch-UI flag but im not shure it will help?</p>