gnome-shell-extended-gestures vs gnome-hud

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gnome-shell-extended-gestures		gnome-hud
	Project
9	Mentions	3
300	Stars	115
-	Growth	0.0%
0.0	Activity	1.8
about 3 years ago	Latest Commit	over 2 years ago
JavaScript	Language	Python
GNU General Public License v3.0 only	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

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gnome-shell-extended-gestures

Posts with mentions or reviews of gnome-shell-extended-gestures. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-16.

Which touchpad gestures package to install?
3 projects | /r/tuxedocomputers | 16 May 2022

gnome-shell-extended-gestures: this one requires Wayland, not sure if this is okay or not
Touchpad swipes to control to go back one page in your browser in GNOME 40
4 projects | /r/gnome | 28 Mar 2022

I don't know where you can exactly read up on that. I guess go to the extension's github page and ask there. Here how it looks in the extension's settings.
trackpad gesture to "go back" in web browsers
4 projects | /r/linux4noobs | 15 Aug 2021

There are some Github projects that provide both utilities in one (Ex. fusuma and fusuma-plugin-sendkey) and even some projects that already have the browser back/forward integrated in Wayland (Ex. gnome-shell-extended-gestures).
System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment
11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Apr 2021

Gnome 3 has gesture support. I don't think many are built in, certainly not as many as mac OS gives you out of the box. But you can go wild: https://github.com/mpiannucci/gnome-shell-extended-gestures
Two fingers horizontal swipe for ALT-TAB
1 project | /r/gnome | 7 Apr 2021

Hi, before G40 I use this extension to manage swipe gestures, now with native gnome gestures I have some problem to switch from application to another application in the same workspace; is there a way to use two fingers horizontal swipe for emulate the ALT-TAB function? Thx
Is there is a way to change workspaces using the trackpad like the way Mac does?
3 projects | /r/pop_os | 30 Mar 2021

I was thinking of this one: https://github.com/mpiannucci/gnome-shell-extended-gestures. The other person’s link appears to be a better fit though.
Questions before I install Linux
1 project | /r/linuxquestions | 22 Mar 2021

This is really dependent on your desktop environment. For example, this is a GNOME extension that adds extra touchpad gestures.
gestures in gnome
2 projects | /r/gnome | 7 Feb 2021

Are you using X11 or Wayland? The README.md for that extension says that it only works on Wayland (just like Gnome's built-in support for touchpad gestures).
2 Finger History Navigation in Chrome/Chromium
1 project | /r/Fedora | 3 Feb 2021

Also looking for an answer to this. I've tried gnome-shell-extended-gestures and it lets me map a multitouch gesture to "back", but only 3 or 4 finger gestures. No luck there for the 2 finger horizontal history controls I'm used to with Windows and ChromeOS.

gnome-hud

Posts with mentions or reviews of gnome-hud. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-11-16.

Opportunistic, pragmatic Pop!
6 projects | /r/pop_os | 16 Nov 2021

Don't underestimate the appeal of small utilities. The elementary appcenter has nice little tools like this or this, and Mint has warpinator. Unity used to have some nice little helpers, too. For instance a HUD. Lets make a list of tools (or browse OMGUbuntu) and pick the top 20. Maybe includin this. Make them available on Pop and make the top 5 part of the default installation.
Audacity Aquired by Muse Group
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 May 2021

If you’re using the applications on Linux you can use HUDs like https://github.com/hardpixel/gnome-hud
System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment
11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Apr 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing gnome-shell-extended-gestures and gnome-hud you can also consider the following projects:

touchegg - Linux multi-touch gesture recognizer

cosmic - Computer Operating System Main Interface Components

workspaces - Workspaces app for linux elementaryos gtk

Tiling-Assistant - An extension which adds a Windows-like snap assist to GNOME. It also expands GNOME's 2 column tiling layout.

LibreScore - The open source (GPLv3), serverless (IPFS-based), offline-first, and totally free alternative to musescore.com

Fusuma - Multitouch gestures with libinput driver on Linux

warpinator - Share files across the LAN

ydotool - Generic command-line automation tool (no X!)

musescore-downloader - ⚠️ This repo has moved to https://github.com/LibreScore/dl-librescore ⚠️ | Download sheet music (MSCZ, PDF, MusicXML, MIDI, MP3, download individual parts as PDF) from musescore.com for free, no login or Musescore Pro required | 免登录、免 Musescore Pro，免费下载 musescore.com 上的曲谱

shell - Pop!_OS Shell

pocillo-gtk-theme - GTK+ 3.22 & GTK+ 4 based theme for the Budgie Desktop that has Material Design elements and styled using the Arc colour palette