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Rico Tiongson a3f5cf68dc [bugfix-kde-startup] Defer to bash when executing autostart script (#12) 
PATH is not reliable especially for .zshrc when running autostart script. Prefer executing autostart from bash by default instead. Fixes autostart bug is present in KDE neon v5.11 (plasma v5.11.2).
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README.md

Comfortable Swipe (Ubuntu)

License: GPL v3

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

  1. Install libinput-tools and libxdo-dev

    sudo apt-get install libinput-tools libxdo-dev

  2. Clone this repository

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

  3. Install

    bash install

  4. You may delete the downloaded comfortable-swipe-ubuntu folder after installation.

How to Run

  1. Make sure ~/.local/bin/ is added to your PATH.

  2. Run

    comfortable-swipe start

  3. Optional: Automatically run on startup

    comfortable-swipe-autostart

Permissions

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

  1. 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

  2. Check the fourth column (e.g. input) then run

    sudo gpasswd -a $USER input

  3. 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.