activate menu with gesture

Schneegans / Gnome-Pie

A pie menu launcher for linux. Read the release announcement of version 0.7.2 at https://schneegans.github.io/news/2018/10/30/gnome-pie-072 Or have a look at the homepage!

http://schneegans.github.io/gnome-pie.html

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activate menu with gesture #200

Open tronta opened 2 years ago

tronta commented 2 years ago

The extensions is great, however I use it often as I do not like keyboards shortcuts for its activation, which is a petty. So my question is, if there /could be the possibility to activate by a multi finger gesture eg. touch 4 fingers on touch pad or touch screen? so a workflow could look like this:

4 finger touch pad --> menu appears
move 4 fingers in to select the relevant entries

ls-1N commented 2 years ago

I accomplished launching Gnome-Pie by using fusuma to define touchpad gestures that get mapped to keyboard hotkeys. For the touch screen I use Touchegg.

It is possible your desktop environment already has support for defining gestures, so you might not need these.

I personally didn't map gestures for selecting the pie entries - I was content with tapping on them, but you definitely could accomplish that as well, since Gnome-Pie takes keyboard input IIRC.