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I have an ASUS Zenbook UX31a and multi touch gestures worked great on 12.10, but after I upgraded to 13.04 every gesture stopped working, except for 2, 3 and 4 finger taps (the 3 finger tapped changed function, though).
According to this comment on Launchpad the gestures were removed by design, but no other explanation is provided.
What is the reason for removing trackpad gestures?
Yes the touchpad gesture was removed but the nearest possible touch gesture software you can get is : Easystroke Gesture
Its available in Ubuntu Software Center.
or else you can try installing Touchegg
Pre-requisites You need the latest vesion of Utouch to be running this. So add the following PPA
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:utouch-team/daily
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install utouch
Installation
Editing the config file Config file is located here ~/.config/touchegg/touchegg.conf
Editing the file: Open config file.
gedit ~/.config/touchegg/touchegg.conf
In the example below, the four finger drag gesture is configured to switch to Show Desktop
Four Fingers Drag
[FOUR_FINGERS_DRAG_DOWN]
action=SHOW_DESKTOP
settings=
Three Fingers Drag
[THREE_FINGERS_DRAG_UP]
action=MAXIMIZE_RESTORE_WINDOW
settings=
[THREE_FINGERS_DRAG_DOWN]
action=MINIMIZE_WINDOW
settings=
I dont know if this helps but it might help to restore the gestures in 13
Install touchegg using software center or synaptic or terminal
sudo apt-get install touchegg
Try Mac like MultiTouch support
Note that touchegg only works with touchpads that use the evdev driver and will not work with Alps touchpads.
Sometimes, the drivers for your hardware may be automatically disabled by your system, or somehow unrecognized.
You can try installing Synaptiks in the Ubuntu Software Centre. It's a very good program. (One of my favourites)
