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README.md

Comfortable Swipe (Ubuntu)

Comfortable, seamless, and fast 3-finger (and 4-finger) touchpad swipe gestures for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and beyond. May work for other Linux distros that support libinput.

Installation

Install libinput-tools and libxdo-dev

sudo apt-get install libinput-tools libxdo-dev

Clone this repository

git clone https://github.com/Hikari9/comfortable-swipe-ubuntu.git
cd comfortable-swipe-ubuntu

Install
```
bash install
```
You may delete the downloaded comfortable-swipe-ubuntu folder after installation.

How to Run

Make sure ~/.local/bin/ is added to your PATH.
Run
```
comfortable-swipe start
```
Optional: Automatically run on startup
```
comfortable-swipe autostart
```

Permissions

Sometimes, you'll need some permissions to read touchpad input data.

Find out your permission group with ls -l /dev/input/event*

$ ls -l /dev/input/event*

crw-rw---- 1 root input 13, 64 Oct 23 23:09 /dev/input/event0
crw-rw---- 1 root input 13, 65 Oct 23 23:09 /dev/input/event1
crw-rw---- 1 root input 13, 66 Oct 23 23:09 /dev/input/event2
crw-rw---- 1 root input 13, 67 Oct 23 23:09 /dev/input/event3

Check the fourth column (e.g. input) then run
```
sudo gpasswd -a $USER input
```
Important: Log out / Log back in

Configurations

The configuration file is located at ~/.config/comfortable-swipe.conf.
Make sure to run comfortable-swipe restart after making changes.

Property	Description	Default Value	Default Behavior
left3	3-finger swipe left	ctrl+shift+Right	switch to right workspace
right3	3-finger swipe right	ctrl+shift+Left	switch to left workspace
up3	3-finger swipe up	super+w	window spread
down3	3-finger swipe down	super+w	window spread
left4	4-finger swipe left	ctrl+alt+shift+Right	move window to right workspace
right4	4-finger swipe right	ctrl+alt+shift+Left	move window to left workspace
up4	4-finger swipe up	super+d	show desktop
down4	4-finger swipe down	super+d	show desktop
threshold	mouse pixels to activate swipe; higher = less sensitive; integers only	20

Uninstall

Download the uninstall script then run bash uninstall

Bug Reports

Create an issue here to report a bug.