Cant get touchegg to open

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I am using Ubuntu 11.10 and i have put the sudo apt-get install touchegg line 
in terminal to download it a couple of times. But i can not get the box from 
the video to open so I can begin to start using my gestures.. If anyone could 
give me any help, i am still pretty new to Linux, The information I can give 
you about my machine is Ubuntu 11.10 the default sign in when you get an Ubuntu 
system with the unity tool bar.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by Ben.Onei...@gmail.com on 23 Feb 2012 at 4:34

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Hi!

Try to run "touchegg" in a terminal, make gestures and check the output. If 
your trackpad is supported, the name of the 

Original comment by jose.exposito89@gmail.com on 24 Feb 2012 at 3:58

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Issue 144 has been merged into this issue.

Original comment by jose.exposito89@gmail.com on 24 Feb 2012 at 3:58

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Hello, I ran it in terminal and it is recgonizing my touchpad. Your comment has 
been cut off so i do not know what to do after that.. Or how to get the 
touchegg to do what i want it to do. Please give me more feedback!
Thanks a lot!

Original comment by Ben.Onei...@gmail.com on 28 Feb 2012 at 4:24

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Yes, I don't know why, but my message is cutted :S

By default Unity uses gestures with 3 and 4 fingers making impossible to 
Touchégg use these gestures. Probably that's the problem.

Try to run Touchégg in Gnome or in KDE

Greetings!!

Original comment by jose.exposito89@gmail.com on 28 Feb 2012 at 4:49

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I think what the OP means (and is also happening to me (Ubuntu 11.10)) is that 
the GUI window never appears.  I am using compiz with openbox (no unity, no 
gnome-shell.  LightDM calls it openbox-gnome I believe).  When I launch 
touchegg from the command line it starts and seems to recognize when I do a 
gesture on my touchpad, but there is no GUI, no window that pops up, etc.

--(dmartinez@vera:$)-- /usr/bin/touchegg
Reading config from  "/home/dmartinez/.config/touchegg/touchegg.conf" 
[+] New gesture: 
    Type      ->  "DRAG" 
    Fingers   ->  2 
    Direction ->  "DOWN" 
    Action    ->  "SCROLL" 
    App Class ->  "URxvt" 
    Gesture Start 0 "Drag,touch=2" 
    Gesture Update 0 "Drag,touch=2" 
    Gesture Update 0 "Drag,touch=2" 
    Gesture Update 0 "Drag,touch=2" 
    Gesture Finish 
[+] New gesture: 
    Type      ->  "DRAG" 
..... 

It will print out tech relating to mousepad issues forever until I issue a 
Ctrl+C, but never anything else (no GUI, no errors about launching GUI, etc).

Let me know what other information I can provide.

Original comment by dave.h.m...@gmail.com on 19 Mar 2012 at 5:20

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Hi!

I'm sorry, but the GUI for the current version is not available.. And I haven't 
got many time to work on it. You will need to edit the configuration file to 
change the Touchégg settings:
http://code.google.com/p/touchegg/wiki/AllGestures
http://code.google.com/p/touchegg/wiki/AllActions

Original comment by jose.exposito89@gmail.com on 19 Mar 2012 at 5:42

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Aha! That clears it up!

The OP and I must've seen the same YouTube vid with the sexy UI.  I'll check 
the documentation referenced.

Thanks

Original comment by dave.h.m...@gmail.com on 19 Mar 2012 at 6:13

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Ok! I close the issue ;)

Original comment by jose.exposito89@gmail.com on 19 Mar 2012 at 6:31

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