Gestures

About

This is a program for intercepting touchpad gestures and executing commands based on them. Unlike some alternatives, it directly uses the libinput api rather than parsing the output of libinput debug-events.

Features

gestures is able to handle libinput swipe events; not only vertical and horizontal but diagonal as well. - [x] Handle libinput events - [x] Swipe events; vertical, horizontal and diagonal - [x] Pinch events - [x] Hold events - [ ] Rotate events - [ ] Continuous and one-shot events (currently only continuous is supported) - [x] Config file

Configuration

See config.md for configuration instructions.

Installation

With Cargo

If you have cargo installed, simply use cargo install gestures

Manual installation

• Clone the repo

  • git clone https://github.com/riley-martin/gestures

• Build

  • cargo build --release

• Copy gestures/target/release/gestures to a convenient place and execute it

Alternatives

Here are some alternatives that may suit your use case better, as well as the reasons I don't use them.

• libinput-gestures
  Parses libinput debug-events rather than using libinput api, which is less memory and cpu efficient
• gebaar Not maintained, only supports swipe gestures
• gebaar-libinput-fork Fork of gebaar which supports other gestures, but is also not actively developed
• fusuma Also parses libinput debug-events output