Linux Touchpad Gestures Like Macbooks! 

imo there really needs to be a way in the future to set these gestures to use 3 fingers instead of 4. not just because 3 finger gestures are more universal than 4 finger ones, but also because of accessibility concerns (e.g. if someone is missing a finger, using all their remaining fingers for a gesture may be uncomfortable)

3-finger swipe to change workspaces has been my absolute STAPLE. 3-finger swipe up to bring up the overview(GNOME) was also really cool. Holy cow. I might never use KDE because I like my GNOME configuration a lot these days, but would really appreciate 1-to-1 gestures done right(or completely customizable)

bruh i read the title like "linux touched grass" i was so hyped goddammit

Happy to see these things are progressing so much on Linux. Huge respect for the developers 💜

The video had a really good vibe! Thank you Nicco

For me the most important is the ability to use 3 fingers left/right for window switching (like Windows 10/11), 3 fingers up for maximize and 3 fingers down for minimize or unmaximize.

Just 1.5 year ago, I was desperately waiting for 1 to 1 gestures, and I can't believe that even though not configurable, we have gestures on GNOME and KDE, and hence I finally made the switch.

5:50 I'm pretty sure Australians would love that feature too 🙃

thanks a lot for this discussion about gestures on Linux, cuz we really need to improve laptop experience, a lot things to do..

Touchpad... My wife's macbook pro from 2012 touchpad is so good, I never miss using a mouse!

I really like the 1-to-1 gestures from KDE but there are some things missing. I haven't seen a gesture to switch applications. In windows or pop os, it is possible to do it with a three-finger swipe. I hope that KDE adds it one day. I would like to customize the gestures and layout of KDE as follows: - Three fingers swipe horizontally to bring up the application switcher and scroll on it. If you have windows for the same application grouped together you can swipe up or down to see the windows switcher for that application after the application switcher is open. You can still swipe left or right to go back to the application switcher and change the active application. If the windows for the applications are grouped together you should not group together the active window and the other windows for the active application. So that if you have evince with three open windows and on the background firefox you can change to the second window of evince by swiping just left and if you need the third window top or bottom . Otherwise, you would have to swipe right to switch to firefox, left to switch again to evince to open the second window, and then top or bottom to open the third. I tried to draw a graph of the swipes in the two options. The layout of the application or window switcher can be any and is independent of the swiping graph. | e3 | |e1 | e2 | f1 | instead of: | e3 | | e2 | | e1 | f1 | - Four fingers gestures to switch desktop. Four sides since KDE supports having multiple rows of desktops. - (View 1) Three fingers down to show all the open windows on the current desktop and search for open windows in all desktops like the four-finger pinch-in. - Three fingers up to open the desktop grid. There could be a small icon of a magnifier glass that you can press to switch to (View 1). If you write on your keyboard you also switch to (View 1) and search. - Remove the four-finger pinch-in gesture since it's not necessary or use it for something else. - Right now if you start four fingers swipe up or down and then swipe in the opposite direction you see the animation for the gesture going in the opposite direction. If you have completed the gesture and scroll in the opposite direction you expect the gesture to go in the opposite direction but nothing happens. You have to do the gesture in the original direction to see the animation in the opposite direction. It is confusing to explain and also to use. I would like to have it like when you have not completed the gesture. The gesture for the desktop switcher already does it. By doing it this way it would be more intuitive for me but it might not be for other users. There could be reasons to not have it this way or simply a lack of developers. I am honestly interested in your opinion of what problems could arise.

Gestures are awesome

Someone needs to fix the scrolling speed issue with touchpads on Linux. Might just be an xorg thing but it drove me away from using Linux on my laptop at the time. I spent days trying to change the speed with no luck

on Gnome you can have 1:1 gestures on X11 with touchegg and an extension for gnome shell by the same author.

To me, KDE's touchpad support seems clunkier than Gnome's support. Like swiping up 3 (or 4? cmiiw) fingers to bring up overview and also swipe up to close the overview? Really? It feels awkward to pull such move. Also, you may want to consolidate the overview and virtual desktop switching into a single function just like Gnome. Because most of the time, people run apps and organize them in different virtual desktops at the same time. Right after that, people will start their productivity.

Thumbnails lately are 🔥 🔥 🔥

they should add touchpad gestures to krita, they already exist for touch screens so it wouldn't be that hard

Every gesture should work on almost every app. Why doesn't it? You gesture, it sends an event, and apps implement the event handlers. For the app it doesn't matter if you executed the gesture with a key combination, some kind of mouse magic, a joystick, or a touchpad gesture.

Linux users: No one takes us seriously. Also Linux users: My gimp stops responding to 2 finger pinch when I try touchegg with gnome.

Customization of gestures lmao pls haha Thank you for bringing attention to this!

I just gave up on gestures and now I just use the screen edges on kde to bring up overview and applications. Got used to it and been working well for me

this video is insane🔥🔥

touchegg, with the corresponding Gnome extension, allows you to have one-to-one gestures on Gnome X11...

It seems there are more gestures possibilities than I thought of. Myself I am using libinput-gestures and I have scrolling with inertia! I still have to do some configuring...

thank you

3:55 > _"laptop vertically"_ umh, one would assume you would rotate the system wide orientation? wait, is that possibile in linux? i'm sure it would be, but have never seen it before.

So... I've been having this stupid and annoying issue with my Plasma panel. There's a couple layers to this, so first of all I have to mention that I have a custom shell script that changes my wallpaper and Plasma shell theme for night and day... called Dynamic Theme. I also have two custom launchers on my panel, for Krunner and Overview, respectively. And last of all, I have modified versions of Breeze and Breeze-dark. The settings are all the same, save for accent color on window decorations. Icons are set to Breeze and Breeze-dark respectively, for themes Breeze Colorful and Breeze Colorful Dark. When my Dynamic Theme script sets the night theme, all icons everywhere are their correct variants. But, when Dynamic Theme sets the day theme, all icons, except the Overview get set correctly. For some reason it gets stuck in the light icon. I have the icon (in both light and dark folders) in breeze/actions/symbolic and symlinked the svg to all the different sizes, like the rest of the icons. I have no idea what's causing this issue, but it's been bothering me since 5.20! (which is when I added the custom launchers)

I was using libinput-gestures, but I was only partially happy with it. There were many issues with libinput gestures so I stopped it from loading and startup and installed touchegg and touche. It seems to be more reliable.

Firefox two finger swipe works for me in KDE neon x11 from the touchpad

I touchpad love gestures! But man, there just isn't anything out there for desktop PCs. If anyone knows of a good USB/BT touchpad pls let me know.

I use 3 finger tap to emulate middle mouse button Other than that, I just use the standard touch pad stuff that can be easily done with a mouse But I would like to have the ability to switch desktops with 3 finger swipe

I appreciate all the hard work that went into touchpad gestures, but I personally never used gestures: most of the time I work with the laptop either docked (so the laptop touchpad isn't very accessible anyway), gaming with a mouse (gaming with a touchpad is terrible), or reading/coding (for which 2 finger scrolling is all the touchpad gestures I need). The whole concept of using your keyboard, and then lifting your hand to rest it on the touchpad to do some gestures is so weird to me: if your fingers are already on the keys, then whatever you want to do, a keyboard shortcut is easier and faster.

I have watched 3-4 of your videoes, I still don't understand if the software is out yet.

At 4:22, how did you operate the window?

Firefox pinch to zoom does not work on Ubuntu 22.04, may be due to snap nonsense. 😔

I'm on latest KDE Neon and there's no pinch gesture to access the overview. Or is it going to be releases later? I'm on a machine that doesn't support the 4 finger swipe that was the default to access the overview. I know about toucheg or libinput . I just want to have the 1:1 gesture

what distro do u use?

I still dislike kde gestures. they are inconsistent in touch screen and touch pad

Can I get this gestures in Arch Linux?

First time linux user here on the steamdeck. Would any of these gestures work on steamdeck os?

Valeu!

How about opera?