gestures VS syngesture

Compare gestures vs syngesture and see what are their differences.

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gestures

Posts with mentions or reviews of gestures. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-04-26.
  • What touchpad gestures do you use on Plasma?
    10 projects | /r/kde | 26 Apr 2021
    Regardless of software (touchegg + touché, fusuma, libinput-gestures + libinput-gestures-qt OR gestures, gebaar-libinput, gebaar-libinput-fork, syngesture, gestures), which gestures do you actively use on your Plasma desktop?

syngesture

Posts with mentions or reviews of syngesture. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-14.
  • Cosmic Skies of a Colorado July
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Jul 2023
    I've shared my opinion on why mouse/trackpad handling is terrible on most Linux distributions [0], thanks to an insane obsession w/ rewriting the entire stack and throwing away vendor-provided acceleration curves in order to provide gesture support, instead of just building it on top of the correct, working solution.

    More importantly, there is a solution for fixing this and I've done my part by open sourcing a multi-touch gesture support that's driver-agnostic and runs on top of the vendor-provided drivers w/ their correct acceleration curves [1].

    (But TBH I don't know if this applies to Apple's trackpad because I don't know if there are any first-party drivers w/ proper acceleration curves for Linux or if they've all been poorly reverse engineered.)

    [0]: https://neosmart.net/blog/multi-touch-gestures-on-linux/

    [1]: https://github.com/mqudsi/syngesture/

  • Linux Touchpad Like MacBook Update: Touchpad Gestures Now Shipping
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Dec 2021
    I wrote a general purpose multitouch daemon w/ gesture support for Linux that works with the existing input stack (i.e. doesn’t require switching to evinput), if anyone is interested:

    https://neosmart.net/blog/2020/multi-touch-gestures-on-linux...

    https://github.com/mqudsi/syngesture

  • Touchpad gestures?
    4 projects | /r/swaywm | 3 Dec 2021
  • What touchpad gestures do you use on Plasma?
    10 projects | /r/kde | 26 Apr 2021
    Regardless of software (touchegg + touché, fusuma, libinput-gestures + libinput-gestures-qt OR gestures, gebaar-libinput, gebaar-libinput-fork, syngesture, gestures), which gestures do you actively use on your Plasma desktop?

What are some alternatives?

When comparing gestures and syngesture you can also consider the following projects:

Fusuma - Multitouch gestures with libinput driver on Linux

touchegg - Linux multi-touch gesture recognizer

touche - The desktop application to configure Touchégg

libinput-gestures - Actions gestures on your touchpad using libinput

gebaar-libinput - Gebaar, A Super Simple WM Independent Touchpad Gesture Daemon for libinput

gestures

kbct - Keyboard keycode mapping utility for Linux supporting layered configuration

hawck - Key-rebinding daemon for Linux (Wayland/X11/Console)