Swipe
Linux Gestures (by evuraan)
libinput-gestures
Actions gestures on your touchpad using libinput (by bulletmark)
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Swipe
Posts with mentions or reviews of Swipe.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-12-28.
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Touchpad gesture with more than 2 fingers
Linux Gestures: https://evuraan.info/Swipe/
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Touchscreen Gestures for Linux Desktops: 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!
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Introducing: edotool
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
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Fusuma VS Swipe - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 2 Aug 2021
Swipe - Gestures on Linux.
libinput-gestures
Posts with mentions or reviews of libinput-gestures.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-15.
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Finger gesture does not work in Chromium-based browsers with Wayland enabled
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:
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3 finger touchpad gesture to switch between groups
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.
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how hard is it to program pinch zoom for my touchpad in linux?
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
- Two-dimensional workspaces
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Gestures are are a pain to install on linux mint. I followed all steps for 5 hours in the internet and still it says "libinput-gestures failed to start as a desktop application.". Can someone tell me what am I failing to understand here?
$ 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
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Touchpad gesture
if using wayland, try https://github.com/OneAdder/libinput_gestures_qt and https://github.com/bulletmark/libinput-gestures
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Trackpad pinch to zoom
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
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A note-taking app idea that works with our chaotic organic brains
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.
- Libinput-gestures: Actions gestures on your touchpad using libinput
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Swipe and libinput-gestures you can also consider the following projects:
ydotool - Generic command-line automation tool (no X!)
touchegg - Linux multi-touch gesture recognizer
edotool - edotool: simulate keyboard input and mouse activity
Fusuma - Multitouch gestures with libinput driver on Linux
wayfire - A modular and extensible wayland compositor
gestures
touche - The desktop application to configure Touchégg
solus-sc - Solus Software Center
wlroots - A modular Wayland compositor library
ToucheggKDE - TouchEgg configuration for MacOS and Windows like Touchpad Multi-Touch Gestures on KDE Plasma.
Swipe vs ydotool
libinput-gestures vs touchegg
Swipe vs edotool
libinput-gestures vs Fusuma
Swipe vs Fusuma
libinput-gestures vs wayfire
Swipe vs gestures
libinput-gestures vs touche
libinput-gestures vs solus-sc
libinput-gestures vs wlroots
libinput-gestures vs ydotool
libinput-gestures vs ToucheggKDE