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Disabling Chrome Swipe navigation - Two Finger "back"
Type chrome://flags/#overscroll-history-navigation into the address bar.
Change the state from 'Enabled' to 'Disabled'.
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Ubuntu 16.04 multitouch gestures
I never succeeded in making it work with touchegg. But there is an easy way to achieve it with another tool. Here are the steps:
At first download, compile libinput-gestures and install from git ...
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Proper touchpad thumb & palm detection with libinput
For Ubuntu 15.10+ you can install libinput (wily, xenial, yakkety) through apt:
sudo apt install xserver-xorg-input-libinput
I did still have to edit the config file to enable tapping, I assume as ...
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How can I get Firefox to recognize multitouch gestures on a touch screen?
On Xubuntu 16.04 with Firefox 50, I got it working by enabling e10s and setting the env-var MOZ_USE_XINPUT2=1. In detail:
Enable e10s/Multiprocess. If you're running Firefox 57 or higher, it should ...
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Proper touchpad thumb & palm detection with libinput
This is how to install libinput to Ubuntu.
Install some needed packages
sudo apt-get install git build-essential autoconf automake pkg-config libtool
sudo apt-get install libmtdev1 libmtdev-dev ...
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How to install Touchegg-GCE?
First install dependencies:
sudo apt-get install build-essential libqt4-dev libx11-6 libx11-dev
Download the .zip file from here
cd ~/Downloads
unzip Touchegg-gce-master.zip
cd Touchegg-gce-master
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Focaltech touchpad. Couldn't find synaptics properties.
You have a Focaltech touchpad. The driver can be installed by running in terminal
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:hanipouspilot/focaltech-dkms
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install focaltech-dkms
You ...
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How can I get Firefox to recognize multitouch gestures on a touch screen?
Firefox doesn't yet support multitouch on X11/Linux. At present, work is underway on upgrading from GTK+ 2 to GTK+ 3 which I believe has landed in Nightly and Aurora/Developer Edition. There's a bug ...
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Is there anything to read and hand-annotate a pdf like on paper on a touchscreen with stylus?
Xournal++ is a feature-rich hand note-taking software:
Xournal++ is an cross-platform, open source, hand note-taking software
with the target of flexibility, functionality, and speed. It is a
modern ...
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Stop Scrolling on fingers up
I've asked the same question on unix stackexchange: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/278923/mousewheel-touchpad-scrolling-in-browsers and what I found out after a little bit of exploration is ...
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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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Configuring libinput-gestures for a MacBook like experience
An excellent blog post that answers your question.
https://devhub.io/repos/bulletmark-libinput-gestures
I just finished configuring my system (MacBook Air) using this and Ubuntu Gnome 16.10.
BTW -...
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Chrome two finger scroll then right clicks
I had the same issue only in Chrome too.
You can solve this problem by using 50-synaptics.conf config file :
wget http://hgdev.co/wp-content/uploads/50-synaptics.conf
sudo mkdir /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d
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Ubuntu 16.04 multitouch gestures
You might be able to get touch working by disabling the xinput 2FGT gestures and letting gestures bubble to the xserver.
To do this, find out the id of the input method that you want to fix:
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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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How to activate Pinch-To-Zoom/Twisting with Synaptics Touchpad?
Friends, I am on Ubuntu 21.04 now. And two-fingures-pinch-zoom works out of the box with Firefox.
Real pinch zoom mac-style. Not just page scaling CTRL+[+], which makes responsive pages to change ...
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How can I get 2 finger scrolling to work?
The answer is very simple. You installed a wrong Elantech driver first.
This can be fixed by running
sudo dkms remove psmouse/elantech-x551c --all
sudo apt-get install --reinstall focaltech-dkms
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Chrome two finger scroll then right clicks
You can solve the two-finger-scrolling issue by following these steps:
Open a terminal (shell) window.
Run the command below in order to become root (superuser). Becoming root is important because ...
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How to configure my touchpad to switch between workspaces with a swipe
Dont know about unity but you can do in Gnome, move your cursor over the dash/launcher , swipe with 2 finger boom workspaces switch instantly.
Cheers
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Activate pinch to zoom in Ubuntu
Holding down CTRL while pinching or zooming will allow you to perform the gesture.
From this post
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Touchpad tap stopped working
It looks like you installed libinput. You have two options:
Enable tapping with libinput. It can be done by adding
Option "Tapping" "true"
to the touchpad section of /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/90-...
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Disable middle click with Wayland
Solution
Use the command:
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad middle-click-emulation true
When we enable middle click emulation, if there is a real middle button on your touchpad he'...
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Media Keys and Multitouch not working with Tk820
I have the same keyboard and the multi-touch gestures had driven me crazy for some time.
Out of the box they were working, then at some point they were gone. I've tried everything, but nothing worked....
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How to activate Pinch-To-Zoom/Twisting with Synaptics Touchpad?
I had success using Fusuma and xdotool. Install xdotool and the Fusuma gem and then create its config file at ~/.config/fusuma/config.yml and include the following:
pinch:
2:
in:
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three finger tap not working with synaptics touchpad driver
Should work in any device with "synclient". Just run:
"synclient TapButton3=2"
this sets the middle finger button to the gesture action configured, namely paste the selected test.
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Ubuntu 16.04 multitouch gestures
libinput-gestures works for my xps15 on ubuntu 16.04.
And I would like to share my configure commands.
gesture swipe up 3 xdotool key ctrl+alt+Up
gesture swipe down 3 xdotool key ctrl+alt+Down
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Touchpad tap stopped working
I had the same problem and after a LOT of searching and trial and error I came up with this solution and I am sure It will work in your case as well. Since you tried installing gnome3 and then later ...
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Single tap working as right click and double tap as single in Ubuntu 18.04 with Unity
You can add xserver-xorg-input-synaptics package and enable tapping.
Steps:
sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
sudo mkdir -p /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d
sudo touch /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/40-...
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Ubuntu 18.04 Touchscreen Kiosk – Disable Multi-Touch Gestures
It seems these gestures cannot be disabled with gsettings.
However, the Gnome Shell Extension "Disable Gestures" worked perfectly for me.
Automated Installation
I recently added an installation ...
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