Show HN: A simple GUI app to make Linux touchpad gestures easier

I was hoping to see MacOS style three-finger drag being available through this. Unfortunately, it will technically most certainly not be possible to augment it this way, and the maintainer of libinput considers three-finger drag as a luxury that will introduce unnecessary overhead and complexity.<p>Three-finger drag is IMO one of the most helpful usability features of MacOS, and I miss it dearly every day since I bought my XPS 13.<p>Edit: ... which is not the fault of the developer of this tool. Good job, I like the spirit and think this is incredibly useful and powerful.<p>The tool could further make configuration of the most common use cases simpler IMO. Not every user is keen or able to enter the specific commands.

Nice. However the biggest limitation (which is no fault of this app) is that the gestures simply trigger commands upon their completion, with no intermediate feedback. What would it take to implement animations that follow gestures in progress like how macOS&#x27;s change workspace animation continuously tracks one&#x27;s fingers during the swipe?

Haven’t tried this yet (am away). But it looks like just what I have been looking for, thanks!

Can you explain a little bit more about this? This allows me to add arbitrary gestures (within the confines of swipe&#x2F;pinch, 2&#x2F;3&#x2F;4 fingers etc) that trigger command line commands?<p>Does it work with all touchpads?<p>What are some commands I might be interested in configuring?

This may have been a lot easier using Jupyter widgets. Or Bokeh. Or Kivy.<p>In the future I hope we will get some kind of usable Python runtime for Webassembly, implementing or interfacing to something like React or vuejs.<p>But currently that kind of runtime would be a rather big download...