jacksongoode / gnome-gesture-improvements

Touchpad Gesture Improvements

This extension modifies and extends existing touchpad gestures on GNOME.

Installation

Supported Versions

• GNOME Shell 40

GNOME Extensions

From extension#4245.

GitHub

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

Gestures (including built-in ones)

Gesture	Modes	Fingers	Direction
Switch windows	Desktop	3	Horizontal
Switch workspaces	Overview	2/3	Horizontal
Switch app pages	AppGrid	2/3	Horizontal
Switch workspaces	*	4	Horizontal
Desktop/Overview/AppGrid navigation	*	4	Vertical
Maximize/unmaximize a window	Desktop	3	Vertical
Snap/half-tile a window	Desktop	3	Explained below

For activating tiling 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

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)
• 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

Thanks

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