thisismani / gnome-gesture-improvements

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)

Swipe Gesture	Modes	Fingers	Direction
Switch windows	Desktop	3	Horizontal
Switch workspaces	Overview	2/3	Horizontal
Switch app pages	AppGrid	2/3	Horizontal
Forward Back gesture	Desktop	3/4	Horizontal
Switch workspaces	*	4	Horizontal
Desktop/Overview/AppGrid navigation	*	4	Vertical
Unmaximize/maximize/fullscreen a window	Desktop	3	Vertical
Minimize a window	Desktop	3	Vertical
Volume control	Desktop	3/4	Vertical
Snap/half-tile a window	Desktop	3	Explained below
Drop Down Terminal (add F12 shortcut for ddterm)	Desktop	4	Vertical

Pinch Gesture	Modes	Fingers
Pop Launcher	Desktop	3/4
Window Manipulation	Desktop	3/4
Close tab (Ctrl + W)	Desktop	3/4
Show Desktop	Desktop	3/4

Application Gestures (Configurable)
Go back or forward in browser tab
Switch to next or previous image in image viewer
Switch to next or previous audio
Change tabs

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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