Star Three-Finger Your Linux Laptop and Pinch it too
Linked by David Adams on Wed 2nd Jul 2008 19:13 UTC
Graphics, User Interfaces Not as sick as you might think. Building on the output of the synclient program, the Perl code presented here allows you to assign specific application functions to "Three-Finger Swipe," as well as open- and close-pinch gestures on your Linux laptop. So if you've been wanting your Linux device to act more like your iPhone, here's a start.
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RE: Running
by elliott1787 on Thu 3rd Jul 2008 07:47 UTC in reply to "Running"
elliott1787
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2008-07-03

The gesture that I really want to see is two finger scrolling. I occasionally use a mac laptop of a friends and it is the one thing I envy.

That option has been available in the standard Linux synaptics drivers for a while.

option "VertTwoFingerScroll" "1"

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RE[2]: Running
by saucerful on Thu 3rd Jul 2008 08:56 in reply to "RE: Running"
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2008-06-12

Thanks, that works nicely! Weird, I would have expected this feature to be mentioned on more tutorials/forums/apple arguments.

Curious that the two finger scroll is picked up flawlessly but this implementation three finger swipe barely works...

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RE[3]: Running
by elliott1787 on Thu 3rd Jul 2008 10:07 in reply to "RE[2]: Running"
elliott1787 Member since:
2008-07-03

I don't know why it isn't mentioned more. It was implemented in the 2006-06-04 release, according to the changelog, so it isn't exactly a new feature. The driver is much more customizable than people give it credit for, there is a long list of tunables available.

I guess if the effort was put in to add these swipe and pinch features to the driver, they would work much better than this perl hack. The synaptics driver doesn't seem to be too actively developed though, the current version is nearly 2 years old.

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