Touchpad Gesture Improvements

This extension modifies and extends existing touchpad gestures on GNOME.

Installation

From GNOME Extensions Website

Manually

1. Install extension

git clone https://github.com/harshadgavali/gnome-gesture-improvements.git/
cd gnome-gesture-improvements
npm install
npm run update

2. Log out and log in or just restart session (X11)
3. Enable extension via extensions app or via command line

gnome-extensions enable gestureImprovements@gestures

Additional app X11

On X11, you also need to install gnome-x11-gesture-daemon

Gestures (including built-in ones)

For activating tiling gesture (inverted T gesture)

1. Do a 3-finger vertical downward gesture on a unmaximized window
2. Wait a few milliseconds
3. Do a 3-finger horizontal gesture to tile a window to either side

Notes

• Minimize gesture is available if you have dash-to-dock/panel or similar extension enabled.
• To activate application gesture, hold for few moments(configurable) before swiping
• Tiling gesture can't be activated if you enable minimize gesture

Customization

• To switch to windows from all workspaces using 3-fingers swipes, run

gsettings set org.gnome.shell.window-switcher current-workspace-only false

• Add delay to alt-tab gesture, to ensure second windows gets selected when a fast swipe is done
• Change sensitivity of swipe (touchpad swipe speed)
• Option to follow natural scrolling (seperate from option in GNOME settings)
• Revert to 3-finger swipes to switch workspace on desktop (4-fingers to switch windows)
• Revert to 3-finger swipes for overview navigation (4-fingers to maximize/unmaximize/tile)

Contributors

@jacksongoode @kyteinsky

Thanks

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