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Multitouch gesture recognizer for GNU/Linux that allows associating actions to each gesture.

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How can I disable arbitrary default multitouch gestures in Unity?

I'm using a custom Touchégg multitouch gesture setup in Ubuntu 11.04 with a Magic Trackpad. Since the default gestures (such as 3-finger tap and drag to move windows, 4 finger tap to reveal the dash, etc.) are apparently hardcoded in Unity, I'm…
mgunes
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3 fingers drag and drop

Using 16.04 with Unity I have a touchpad and I'd really like not to have to hold a button while I select text or drag & drop something nor the fake double click before dragging, I never found that handy. I was able to configure this "three finger…
Pierre de LESPINAY
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Magic Mouse inertial scrolling and multi-touch gestures

Is it possible to use inertial two finger scrolling on Ubuntu with a magic mouse and also set up 3 finger swipes to trigger actions in compiz? Maybe using touchegg? I know it's possible with the Magic Trackpad but what about more than normal mouse…
Rafael Vega
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How to use touchscreen to draw?

I have tried different softwares for drawing using my touchscreen (e.g. Gimp or Krita). However, when I touch and drag (to draw a line) what happens is that only the mouse pointer moves from one place to the other, but as I was not "clicking" to…
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What should I do to run after I have successfully installed touchegg on Ubuntu 12.10?

I just have successfully installed touchegg and touchegg gui on my Ubuntu 12.10. But, right now I still can't use the multi touch gestures through touchegg. Nothing happen when I use my three fingers or more on the touch pad. But, the 2 fingers…
everlasting-learner
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How to install Touchegg-GCE?

please, help me! how to install Touchegg-GCE in Ubuntu?
Amir Qasemnezhad Moqadam
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Better Touch Tool Similar

I recently switch to ubuntu after some years of OSX. One of the best tool I really miss is the awesome better touch tool. Do you know something similar? At least I'd like to be able to switch chromes'tabs using a combination like (fn_key+touchpad…
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Three finger swipe up gesture intermittenlty failing on Ubuntu 22.04

I have a Dell XPS 13 9360 and have recently installed Ubuntu 22.04 When I perform the three finger swipe up gesture while I am on a browser, it sometimes fails to show all open windows and just scrolls up the page of the browser. I never had any…
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Multitouch Trackpad Gestures Dell XPS 15

I'm trying to enable some multitouch gestures to mirror what OS X is capable of doing, such as brushing three fingers across the trackpad to switch desktops, swiping two fingers to navigate back in nautilus or firefox etc. I'm trying to use…
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How can I configure Touchegg on Ubuntu 14.04

how can I configure touchegg on ubuntu 14.04 and use the gestures instead of unity gestures I have Dell xps L502x and synaptics trackpad
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can't get touchegg to work with my touchpad

Im sorry guys. I dunno if anyone's willing to help me and I'm just wasting my time here. But I've been poking around on the internet for days trying to find a way to get my Synaptics touchpad (Acer Aspire One D255) to work. I've been using touchegg…
Arshad Husain
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Touchegg not working 12.10 after multi-touch unity gestures disabled

I've read the thread here How can I disable arbitrary default multitouch gestures in Unity? where people seem to have solved their problems with touchegg in 12.10. As for me, I'm able to install everything without errors but then when I bring up…
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Adding 4 finger gesture in ubuntu 16.04

I have installed touchegg and added the following lines in .xprofile synclient TapButton2=0 synclient ClickFinger2=0 synclient TapButton3=0 synclient ClickFinger3=0 synclient HorizTwoFingerScroll=0 synclient VertTwoFingerScroll=0 touchegg & But now…
Yathartha Joshi
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Ubuntu 14.04 gnome touchpad gestures

I want to extend the touchpad gestures of the system, I've ran into touchegg but in my case it did not work. I've read its not working on ubuntu 14.04 gnome environment. Any help is appreciated. I want to approach OS X like gestures. I am using a…
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12.10 - Touchegg: can't add repository

I would like to add some multi-touch gestures, like those on a Mac device. Therefore I want to install Touchegg but I get this error sudo add-apt-repository ppa:utouch-team/daily Cannot access PPA…
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