Touchpad gestures and Touchscreen gestures

Question

Is possible to have gestures for touchpad and touchscreen at the same time?

So far I was only able to enable gestures for touchscreen (using touchegg), after disabling unity default multitouch gestures (see here: How can I disable arbitrary default multitouch gestures in Unity?). The problem is that touchegg only recognizes the input from touchscreen and not from touchpad.

I'm using Ubuntu 14.10 (updated a few days ago, had the same problems with 14.04) my laptop is a Dell XPS 15 9530 with touchscreen.

Thanks.

Answer 1

I am not sure about Unity, but this is built into Gnome 3.14 and above:

• https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.14/touchscreen-gestures.html.en1
  • I am using 3.18 at the time of writing this.
  • For Unity you can read this, there are these two programs EasyStroke and Gesture Injector - I have never used these, I would try EasyStroke first.