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Actions gestures on your touchpad using libinput
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GNOME 40 touchpad gestures #298

Closed osmanpontes closed 3 years ago

osmanpontes commented 3 years ago

Hey guys, thanks for this awesome lib.

Recently GNOME released version 40 which includes touchpad gestures. They are not customizable (at least I didn't find how to) and it's not working so well as your lib. Trying to run libinput-gestures in GNOME 40 have a conflict once both GNOME and libinput-gestures listen to touchpad events independently. Like, what I need is disabling GNOME gestures, but I don't know where to ask this. And I'm writing this to let you know your lib is still important, even after GNOME touchpad gestures was released.

Thanks.

bulletmark commented 3 years ago

Thanks. As I say in the README, I created this as a hack 7 years ago after moving from my Mac laptop and only planned to use it temporarily until the Linux DE's added better touchpad support (which is taking much longer than I expected!). I use Arch which updated 2 days ago with GNOME 40 so I already added a note to the README yesterday the new touchpad gestures added by GNOME 40 and warning about avoiding a clash.

Essentially, on GNOME 40 (with Wayland) you are best to remove all 3 finger swipe gestures from your ~/.config/libinput-gestures.conf. I.e. only use 4 finger swipes and 2, 3, or 4 finger pinches because GNOME (since 40 only) does not use any of those. I personally can't live without the 8 way swipes for my chrome browser to go back/fwd, close/reopen tabs, etc. So I have just moved them to 4 finger swipes.

bulletmark commented 3 years ago

BTW, I also had a quick Google around yesterday about how to disable GNOME 40 gestures but couldn't find anything. I am sure an extension will eventually provide this.

osmanpontes commented 3 years ago

Thanks @bulletmark ! I'm using 4 finger swipes too. I didn't find on Google how to disable GNOME 40 gestures too and then I created question in one of GNOME forums: https://discourse.gnome.org/t/how-to-disable-edit-touchpad-gestures-in-gnome-40/6081.