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I got new T440s first thing I did was Ubuntu installation. To be honest I'm Mac's user, I have macbook air, that's why I'm used to some gestures on my touchpad. I was so disappointed when I realized that only 2-finger scroll is working. My expectations are very low - 3/2 -finger back/forward in browser is enough.

I've tried several solutions:

  1. mtrack driver - doesn't work well only half of touchpad is working
  2. touchegg - when I started it nothing was happened. It seems that it doesn't like Unity and non of the gestures was captured.
  3. Easystroke - doesn't support multitouch

Has anyone made back/forward gesture work in 14.04 LTS?

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I tried out touchegg today and had the same experience with it not working. It turned out I had to disable some multi-touch gestures that were hardcoded into the system before it would work. How to do this is explained in this response from another thread: How can I disable arbitrary default multitouch gestures in Unity?

After I did that touchegg actually worked fine.

Hopefully future releases of unity will allow to modify the multitouch gestures in the system settings, as it seems the functionality is already there.