VIvips7L·Oct 19, 2019
You could try: https://github.com/bulletmark/libinput-gestures
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Actions gestures on your touchpad using libinput
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4 sourcesWhat youre looking for is libinput gestures [0]. Or just use keyboard shortcuts.
[0] https://github.com/bulletmark/libinput-gestures
In Best Smartphones That Still Have a Headphone JackThere 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
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ike trackpads and want a consistent experience, you can get a logitech t650 / apple magic trackpad and share your configuration for libinput/etc. across machines.
Edit: I reread and noticed you're trying to stay away from apple hardware. You could try logitech's trackpad, but apple magic trackpad may be better a la carte. If you did I'd recommend using via USB w/ bluetooth off to avert pairing headaches
> 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
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binput maintainer about whether configurable scroll speed would be welcome upstream (in the prior post, it comes across like your question was far more open ended)? Forking it just to add scroll speed configuration and replicate work that's already been done elsewhere seems a little excessive.
[1] https://github.com/bulletmark/libinput-gestures