Could you clarify how to launch gestures please ?

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Fluid gestures for Linux.

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Could you clarify how to launch gestures please ? #8

Closed prog-amateur2 closed 3 years ago

prog-amateur2 commented 3 years ago

Hello, I am on Debian bullseye and I have installed gestures following the tutorial. After rebook I thought that it would work out of the box but I can't use any gesture. What is missing in my process ? Shall I open a terminal and launch something like "gestures" ? Maybe your answer can be added to the readme if it is short ?

Thank you for your clarification.

natask commented 3 years ago

It should work out the box. The application is launched at start up because of startup script https://github.com/natask/gestures/blob/ac649b487faca85ed2dfc1bdc61bb42b935c8369/install.sh#L96

can you check if the application runs in terminal. do the following steps

open terminal
run command "gestures" without quotes

if gestures are not recognized

run command "gestures debug" without quotes check the line that reads, "Handlers for touchpads:" and see if a touchpad has been detected. I imagine that to be the reason why it is not working.

prog-amateur2 commented 3 years ago

Hello, sorry for my late reply ! Running gestures in terminal doesn't make program gestures working. But running gestures debug shows multiple rows. Unfortunately, I cannot check "Handlers for touchpads" because each time I try to scroll up the terminal / touch the screen (the device is a tablet), too many rows override the top of the terminal output. It's a pitty

Thank you, and by the way even if it does not work on my tablet, I really appreciate your app!

natask commented 3 years ago

you should close the script with control-c and then scroll up to see relevant output. you can also run gestures debug | grep Handlers which only prints the Handlers.

I recommend doing a git pull beforehand. I have refined touchpad detection method.

natask commented 3 years ago

actually if you have multi row outputs that are generated when scrolling and touching the screen, the software detects your input methods.

The next thing I guess is xdotool isn't working. can you try running xdotool --help to check if xdotool is installed? I assume the installation process didn't go smoothly.

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