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I installed xSwipe per instructions on my Dell XPS 13 (9343, early 2015) with Ubuntu Gnome 15.10 .

Launching it with $ perl ~/xSwipe-master/xSwipe.pl works fine, but it doesn't detect three-finger touches. That's weird, since my synaptics capabilities are :

Synaptics Capabilities (325):   1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1

so three-finger touches should be detected.

Is it because xSwipe requires a fall-back to older synaptic drivers?

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xSwipe is limited, it focuses on swiping, vertical or horizontal, and on multi-finger clicks. There is no support for pinching, rotating or tapping, and there are no application specific gestures.

In order for it to work you need to install libx11-guitest-perl

sudo -i
apt-get update
apt-get install libx11-guitest-perl

If you already have a synaptics conf file then open it up and check your trackpad section for the line:

Option "SHMConfig" "on"

Source & More info

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  • libx11-guitest-perl is already installed and the synaptics conf file is properly configured, per the tutorial.
    – Queder
    Mar 22, 2016 at 18:09

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