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Touchpad Gestures in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Fusuma I am using XPS 15 with Ubuntu 18.04 (X.org). I have managed to get multi-gestures working for me. Kohei Yamada has developed an application called Fusuma to enable multi-touch gestures on Linux....
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Touchpad gestures to change workspace

Comfortable Swipe Try comfortable-swipe. Provides 3-finger and 4-finger gestures for switching workspaces, plus a couple more like the window spread in mac. This also uses xdotool, but more comfy ...
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Touchpad gestures to change workspace

The following worked for me on Ubuntu 16.04 and a 2017 Dell XPS 13 (9360): sudo gpasswd -a $USER input sudo apt-get install xdotool wmctrl libinput-tools git clone http://github.com/bulletmark/...
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Touchpad Gestures in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Ubuntu 18.04 uses X.Org as the default display server instead of Wayland. The mentioned Extended Gestures extension currently works only with Wayland. What you need to do is choose Wayland while ...
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Pinch zoom in browsers on Ubuntu 20.04 with Wayland

works on chrome with wayland google-chrome-stable --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --ozone-platform=wayland
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How to set up multi finger gesture control in 20.04

Try Fusuma. It worked for me. https://github.com/iberianpig/fusuma
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Three Finger gestures not working

you have to do something like In the file /etc/gdm3/custom.conf (to access it for editing, you could run sudo nano /etc/gdm3/custom.conf ), comment (add the leading #) this line like #WaylandEnable=...
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How can I disable arbitrary default multitouch gestures in Unity?

Disable standard touch gestures as follows: sudo apt install dconf-editor dconf-editor In the left-hand menus click to com > canonical > unity > gestures and disable the 3 basic gestures ...
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how to Spread the windows in ubuntu 16.04?

Pressing Super+W will zoom out to display all windows. From there you may quickly select another window. Additionally pressing Ctrl+Alt and a number on the numpad allows you to quickly reposition ...
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Advance Touchpad Gesture Like Deepin OS?

For now the most powerful tool for working with touchpad gestures I ever found is Fusuma. It allows to map any keyboard combination to pitch or swipe gesture with N fingers and can be configured via ...
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Is adding a user to input group secure?

Yes, it is. Change the mode to 660 for a bit more security. You can do this by creating a udev rule: sudo mkdir -p /etc/udev/rules.d sudo vi /etc/udev/rules.d/85-input.rules and add SUBSYSTEM=="...
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Touchpad Gestures in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Simply search for "Startup application" by pressing the super key (windows key in my case) then add a new application. Add the command fusuma and then reboot to test it. sudo apt install ...
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How to configure stock Ubuntu Wayland gestures (18.10)

https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1253/extended-gestures/ Works on Pop Os Wayland...tried other things (not fusuma) but the problem was xdtools was not supported in wayland The extension worked ...
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Can you do a multi step zoom on Gnome?

WorkAround Disable the Default keyboardshortcut Alt+Super+8 Create a Custom keyboardshortcut with command /bin/bash /home/<user>/multizoomup create a script named multizoomup in /home/<...
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Installed libinput-gestures to have mac-like gestures but it is not working for some reason

You need to add your user to the input group first. sudo gpasswd -a $USER input xdotool was not installed. That is why the gestures were not working. sudo apt install xdotool to install it. The ...
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How to install gestikk on Ubuntu 22.04?

Disclaimer: Sorry for the bold comparison and bad news in this answer. The article you link to is from 2008. In IT terms this is mostly equivalent to an archeological dig - i.e. it's very old. This ...
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EasyStroke - can't record stroke

Easystroke was a great gesture's app, but it hasn't been actively supported for many years. There is a small community that's still generating patches to keep it running. See here for some info. I ...
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Gestures: Tip Tap and three/four finger click

There is a ruby based project called fusuma (https://github.com/iberianpig/fusuma) that is the closest I got to the macbook trackpad functionalities. It's not perfect, but it's fairly good.
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Permanantly disable Activities hot corner

Install the extension No Topleft Hot Corner and you're done.
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How do I enable trackpad gestures (3 finger swipe, etc) on my Zenbook running Ubuntu 18.04 LTS?

I'm assuming you are using the default GNOME desktop, so these features are not exposed through the UI. The good news is that there's program for that... but it may need to configure it manually. ...
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xdotool Up displaying extra characters

I found some explanation to why this happens and somewhat of a workaround. There are several issues on the xdotool github page that mention issues like this. Apparently it is caused by a ...
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3 fingers drag and drop

I know this is an old post, but I might have an idea. You could try installing Fusuma, there is an explanation on how to install it on this thread. It allows you to do custom commands for things ...
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How to map three finger swipe up to view all open windows

https://askubuntu.com/a/1044184/846886 The solution using fusuma works well (answered above). First add yourself to the "input" group and log out/log back in: sudo gpasswd -a $USER input Install ...
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Touchpad Gestures in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

You can simply download "Extended Gestures" from Ubuntu Software! but, it depends on your PC and doesn't work properly for all PCs OR if you prefer the hard way, install "Ubuntu ...
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Touchpad Gestures in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

I use Comfortable Swipe Comfortable 3-finger and 4-finger swipe gesture using Xdotool in native C++ which I feel perform better than fusuma.
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Custom Touchpad gesture

It's easy to setup with "Fusuma". Currently have it installed on Ubuntu 18.10. It's comes with some standard swipes and commands, that can be easily changed. There's an installation article on it here:...
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Custom Touchpad gesture

If you want to minimize all windows, you can use the Ctrl+Super+D keyboard shortcut. It is possible to set the touchegg program to send this shortcut on a 3-finger swipe. The only problem is that ...
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I cant seem to get touchegg to work in Ubuntu 16.10 (unity)

I guess you might have missed the configuration part. It is as follows Open the Unity dash, search for “Startup applications,” and launch it. This window will allow the user to make it so touchegg is ...
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Wheel gestures in ubuntu?

First, install xbindkeys and xautomation... sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install xbindkeys sudo apt-get install xbindkeys-config sudo apt-get install xautomation Understand that configuring ...
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Touchpad recognized as a mouse. Touchpad gestures don't work

This touchpad is not fully supported by Linux kernel yet. There is no way to get multitouch working without writing a kernel driver.
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