Swipe VS libinput-gestures

Linux Gestures: https://evuraan.info/Swipe/

Long answer: How does this work? We intercept touchpad / touchscreen gestures and inject new, appropriate events back in. Most browsers employ the same shortcuts

For those amongst us who uses Linux Laptops with Touchscreens: I was looking to use occasional screen swipes/gestures etc., but could not find one to suit my needs.

So I wrote one:

https://github.com/evuraan/Swipe

(Today I added Touchscreen support to Swipe).

X11, Wayland et al supported. Equitable PRs and feedback welcome!

After I wrote Swipe I realized I could reuse some of that logic for a simple keystroke simulator and thus born edotool.

Swipe - Gestures on Linux.

With chromium-based like chrome or chromium, this is not the case but at least I can use libinput gesture to allow navigation using 3 fingers (4 are for workspaces and apps switching). Now, I've enabled wayland on these browsers (set ozone-platform=wayland) and there are these issues:

I don't think there are native gestures in qtile. I use fusuma, since it works better for me on X11 and wayland, but I've also used libinput-gestures in the past when on X11, and that works too.

I personally use libinput-gestures to call commands using touchpad gestures. You can also combine it with ydotool to bind macros and such to your gestures, e.g. 4 fingers swipe down closes the current window, 3 fingers swipe left or right changes workspace, etc

$ sudo apt-get install libinput-tools $ git clone https://github.com/bulletmark/libinput-gestures.git $ cd libinput-gestures $ sudo ./libinput-gestures-setup install $ libinput-gestures-setup autostart start

if using wayland, try https://github.com/OneAdder/libinput_gestures_qt and https://github.com/bulletmark/libinput-gestures

The github has quite a lot of info, so hopefully we can find the right config for what we need on there https://github.com/bulletmark/libinput-gestures

You can easily configure a custom key shortcut to open the "Quick Note" window with a keyboard shortcut. If you really want to run this with a drag-from-edge gesture, I think you can configure a drag gesture with LibInput-Gestures, but I have never tried this for myself.