# Using Thunderbird on a Touchscreen

**URL:** <https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/using-thunderbird-on-a-touchscreen/48744>\
**Category:** Thunderbird\
**Tags:** linux, thunderbird\
**Created:** [November 18, 2019, 11:34am UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/using-thunderbird-on-a-touchscreen/48744 "2019-11-18T11:34:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Dandelion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f475e1/32.png) [@Dandelion](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/Dandelion)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2019, 11:34am UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/using-thunderbird-on-a-touchscreen/48744/1 "2019-11-18T11:34:53Z")

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Hi,  
I’ve installed Thunderbird on a Lenovo Ideapad C340-14API (convertible Notebook, has touchscreen) with Linux (Debian 10/Buster with Gnome) running on it

I could not find any option to get Thunderbird to recognize touch gestures such as scrolling through mails, swiping up and down the calendar an so on.  
Instead Thunderbird recognizes the touch gestures as klick-and-drag and so it drags the touched email around or creates a new event in the calendar.

With Firefox it has worked pretty well, all I needed to do was to start firefox with  
“env MOZ\_USE\_XINPUT2=1 /usr/bin/firefox-esr” for the firefox-version shipped with debian per default or nothing (I think) for the latest Version of Firefox (I start it with “env MOZ\_USE\_XINPUT2=1 /opt/firefox/firefox” anyway).

Is there any option to get Thunderbird running with Touchscreen-support? “env MOZ\_USE\_XINPUT2=1 /opt/thunderbird/thunderbird” does not change the behaviour of Thunderbird.

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**Author:** ![arkonbob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@arkonbob](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/arkonbob)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2019, 1:04pm UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/using-thunderbird-on-a-touchscreen/48744/2 "2019-12-16T13:04:38Z")

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Same issue here. I’ve raised [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show\_bug.cgi?id=1604163](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1604163)

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**Author:** ![David\_Jenkins](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/discourse.mozilla.org/david_jenkins/32/74321_2.png) [@David\_Jenkins](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/David_Jenkins)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2025, 2:16pm UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/using-thunderbird-on-a-touchscreen/48744/3 "2025-09-03T14:16:58Z")

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Thunderbird doesn’t support touch gestures yet, so it only sees them as click-and-drag. You’ll need to use scrollbars until future updates add proper support.