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JoseExposito / gnome-shell-extension-x11gestures

Enable GNOME Shell multi-touch gestures on X11 with this extension
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Add gesture handler from another extension #40

Closed Thesola10 closed 2 years ago

Thesola10 commented 2 years ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe

I am a user and contributor of PaperWM, and I love its gesture handling on Wayland. I would like to know if it is possible to have PaperWM interface with this extension in order to retrieve the three-finger gesture on X11, and if so, how? I'm willing to implement the PaperWM side of things myself.

Describe the solution you'd like

An API not too dissimilar from Clutter's gesture events, which could be used from a third-party extension

Describe alternatives you've considered

Not much yet.

Additional context

I want to run GNOME on X11 to be able to use SteamVR (because the Wayland version cannot), and I want the gestures to work on that as well. Otherwise, Wayland works just fine on my system

JoseExposito commented 2 years ago

Hi,

Yes, it is possible. This extension relies on Touchégg's D-Bus API to receive gestures.

You could have a look to the code of this extension and modify it for your needs.

You can find a similar example in Gala. A Mutter based WM that also uses Touchégg's D-Bus API to implement gestures on X11.