libinput-gestures

Well, I'm a few days late but I'm going to leave this here if it can help someone else. If Ubuntu works like Fedora in this regard, it probably switched from Wayland to Xorg when you installed the proprietary Nvidia driver. The Wayland session supports touchpad gestures natively, but the Xorg one doesn't. You can install something like libinput-gestures[1] to replicate the functionality, with the caveat that the gestures won't be triggered until you lift your fingers off the touchpad. (On Wayland the interface reacts to the gestures as you swipe.) Ubuntu switching 'silently' to Xorg is actually working as intended because Nvidia's support for Wayland was somewhat experimental until very recently. It's getting better though, and it's now officially supported on Fedora 35. [1] https://github.com/bulletmark/libinput-gestures

Yes I agree about the smoothness issues, however you can really improve things by adding the line `timeout 0` to your ~/.config/libinput-gestures.conf to set the threshold to the lowest setting. The comments here are from the end of their example config https://github.com/bulletmark/libinput-gestures/blob/master/...: ############################################################################### # You can set a timeout on gestures from start to end. The default is # the value commented below. It can be any value in float secs >= 0. # 0 = no timeout. E.g. set it to 2 secs with "timeout 2". timeout 0

Cool! I've been using libinput-gestures for a while now as a hackish way to accomplish multitouch gestures. It's easy to use and works well if anyone wants this functionality without waiting https://github.com/bulletmark/libinput-gestures

Have you tried this? https://github.com/bulletmark/libinput-gestures I'm using three fingers swap for switching between workspaces. But I agree with the comment above, the animation is key.

Number 1 seems wildly subjective based on the person's level of dexterity and the hardware used. The only way I could see that being meaningful if you did it on the exact same laptop side by side with Mac and Linux and tweaked the acceleration profile, but it doesn't actually sound like the author is talking about installing Linux on a macbook. Numbers 2 and 3 are already in libinput. I am still struggling to understand what it is the author feels they need to fork the project for; there is some additional software that needs to be provided to really get the mac-like desktop experience with gestures, but that is covered by the libinput-gestures project. https://github.com/bulletmark/libinput-gestures

You could try: https://github.com/bulletmark/libinput-gestures

What youre looking for is libinput gestures [0]. Or just use keyboard shortcuts. [0] https://github.com/bulletmark/libinput-gestures

There may be more avenues left to try with your current hardware, before you make a choice: Check to makes sure you're running a distro with recent enough Xorg/linux kernel (but not so bleeding edge stuff like libinput-gestures isn't supported). Also if you use integrated graphics, life may be easier since you can pick between Wayland and Xorg to find which DM supports inputs best in your case. Xorg drivers: https://github.com/p2rkw/xf86-input-mtrack libinput: https://wayland.freedesktop.org/libinput/doc/latest/index.ht... libinput-gestures: https://github.com/bulletmark/libinput-gestures (example: https://gist.github.com/SkyBehind/d664448838d065428eded7eb6d...) Gnome extension with some gesture edgecases: 3-finger swiping to different windows like macOS: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1253/extended-gesture... Also if you really l

> Visual or terminal-based means to configure rudimentary touchpad settings. The fewest options I could imagine supporting for v1 would be: scroll speed/acceleration, scroll speed, natural scrolling toggle, hopefully support for gestures. You gave up on libinput after an inability to configure scroll speed, but the rest of those are all configurable with libinput and libinput-gestures[1]. I don't use gestures yet and default scroll speed has always been fine, and the following tiny libinput configuration hits the rest of your points. $ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/30-touchpad.conf Section "InputClass" Identifier "touchpad" Driver "libinput" MatchIsTouchpad "on" Option "Tapping" "on" Option "TappingButtonMap" "lrm" Option "NaturalScrolling" "true" EndSection Is there a reason you haven't asked the li

> This allows me to add arbitrary gestures (within the confines of swipe/pinch, 2/3/4 fingers etc) that trigger command line commands? Exactly. > Does it work with all touchpads? All libinput-supported touchpads (see: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Libinput). There's more on this on the GitHub page for libinput-gestures, the CLI tool Gestures is based on: https://github.com/bulletmark/libinput-gestures > What are some commands I might be interested in configuring? I'm personally using it to replicate (more or less successfully) the macOS gestures I missed when switching to Linux. For example: - swipe left/right to switch workspace - swipe down to trigger the Budgie Desktop run dialog - swipe left/right to open and close notifications - pinch in/out to zoom in or out (mapping it to the Ctrl/ +- shortcuts) This (5-second) video gives

It's been a year now I've switched from mac to linux. Using libinput-gestures[0] was quite nice, but eventually I changed by workflow to use keyboard shortcuts more. [0] https://github.com/bulletmark/libinput-gestures

You can do all of these things on Linux these days. https://github.com/bulletmark/libinput-gestures

I haven't tried them, but I've come across a few libinput gesture drivers: https://github.com/bulletmark/libinput-gestures https://github.com/iberianpig/fusuma

There is libinput-gestures, which allows arbitrary commands to be executed for each gesture. You might be able to get the desired behaviour this way. https://github.com/bulletmark/libinput-gestures