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I have a Synaptics Touchpad on my Dell XPS 14z and I was wondering if there was any way I could enable some gestures besides two-finger scrolling.



Are there any special drivers i need?
I've read somewhere that 12.04 has had some issues with multitouch gestures but I'm not exactly sure.
If there is a way, could someone give me instructions on how to enable (or get) these features?



I found some evidence that touchegg may not work with 12.04


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Touchegg is designed to bring multi-touch (touchpad) functionality to
Linux based operating systems. In layman’s term, it is an open source
multi-touch gesture recognizer for GNU/Linux which is backed by C++,
Qt and uTouch-geis library. With TouchEgg, you can define what type of
actions are to be initiated for a specific multi-touch gesture.
Numerous actions can be assigned for multi-touch gestures such as
maximizing or minimizing windows, resizing applications, switching to
desktop view, etc. It requires uTouch and evedev libraries.



Touchegg comes with some pre-enabled gestures, however gestures can be
enabled by editing the config file. It allows three-fingers pinch,
two, three, four and five finger tap and two to four finger swipes.




How to install?



add this ppa,ppa:utouch-team/daily as,



sudo add-apt-repository ppa:utouch-team/daily
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install touchegg


Which gestures are supported?



check here



How to use?



config file location ~/.config/touchegg/touchegg.conf



The config file can be edited in the following way:



open config file.



gedit ~/.config/touchegg/touchegg.conf


get list of actions here



# THREE FINGERS DRAG
[THREE_FINGERS_DRAG_UP]
action=MAXIMIZE_RESTORE_WINDOW
settings=
[THREE_FINGERS_DRAG_DOWN]
action=MINIMIZE_WINDOW
settings=


Similarly, in the example below, the four finger drag gesture is configured to switch to the desktop display.



[FOUR_FINGERS_DRAG_DOWN]
action=SHOW_DESKTOP
settings=


With Touchegg, users can easily define multi-touch gestures in order to get the Mac like multi-touch experience on their Linux systems.



you can watch a brief demonstration video. here and here



I found also this one



though I haven't tried it.


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