I’m still trying to get myself over to linux, and I’m having a hard time finding a replacement for BetterTouchTool. Essentially, the app lets you customize multitouch trackpad gestures per-app and system wide with single to 5 finger support.
I use these with good success. Can set up global/system-wide or per-app gestures and multi-finger actions. Works good in my opinion.
those only work on x11 right? idk how well they work in Wayland
On Wayland your DE might get in the way of touchegg with its gestures. I wouldn’t reccomend it on Plasma Wayland. (Last time I checked was like two years ago)
With Wayland finally exploding on the scene these past two years, I want to imagine the devs having worked on that. Many distros are already Wayland default and another 5 years and X will mostly be unsupported by most distros
That could be the case. My work machine is on Debian 12 and I believe still on x11. I haven’t messed with Wayland yet.
This would normally be a feature of your window manager or desktop environment, which do you use?
I’m in the test phase of all the available ones; KDE is by far my favorite, and I really like gnome as well (but I can’t use it because Dropbox relies on application status icons which are absent from gnome; I tried the extensions to bring that back but they didn’t work for me when I tried them a while back)
Linux Mint’s Cinnamon has an involved gesture pref panel, but it’s not per app, it’s system-wide. If the suggestion from the other user for touche/touchegg don’t work due to being designed for X11, you’re out of luck. What you’re asking is a bit too specialized and from what I read from the creator of touchegg on his github, is that Wayland has no way to support these features. So don’t expect it in the future either.
Yeah, I’m basically going to have to refuse to use any app that’s lacking in Wayland support. Really no reason to build a Linux ecosystem that has legacy parts from the get go.
From the developer, he said that Wayland has no way to support these features, not that he won’t support them. You need the right APIs to develop this app, and while X11 seems to have them, Wayland does not.
I’d love BTT on Linux too. The hardest thing for me with a move from macOS to Linux is losing the ability to zip about the OS with a trackpad. Also, I’ve had BTT set for years so that clicking the middle button on a mouse shows Mission Control. God, I wish I could work out how to do that in Mint.
GNOME’s trackpad gestures are excellent, I’m assuming you’re using Cinnamon.
In the new plasma/Wayland it is pretty dope… I make 4 desktops per activity in a matrix shape and use 2 activities work and home and it’s pretty easy to zip a out in the OS and switch activities and desktops with muktifinger scroll, and shortcuts for desktops and activity switching…
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