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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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Help to disable the multi-touch gestures in 14.04?
From the terminal, run synclient to view all touch-pad properties.
Now, according to the official touch-pad support docs in order for multi-touch gestures to work, the touch-pad property ClickFinger3 ...
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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 can I use three fingers to drag on the touchpad of a MacBook Pro?
If I understand correctly, 3 finger drag does not equal to 3 finger gestures. When you do a 3 finger drag the pointer moves with your fingers, but when you do a 3 finger gesture the pointer remains in ...
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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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Logitech t650 wireless touchpad gestures
In kernel 3.19 (as included with Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid) the Logitech HID++ driver got rewritten to improve support for certain Logitech devices. This shifted processing of events from the hardware (the ...
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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Touchpad gestures and Touchscreen gestures
I am not sure about Unity, but this is built into Gnome 3.14 and above:
https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.14/touchscreen-gestures.html.en1
I am using 3.18 at the time of writing this.
For ...
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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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Wrong pinch direction on a FocalTech touchpad
Pinch gesture is not supported in Ubuntu, at least without special setup.
Pressing Ctrl and trying to pinch is actually two-finger scrolling. That results in scaling in browsers.
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