gesture-finger.md

Gesture Finger - Touchpad Gestures

1. Dependency Installation

Make sure libinputInstalled:

sudo pacman -S libinput

Install libinput-gestures detect touchpad gestures:

yay -S libinput-gestures

Add your users to the group inputto have access to the touchpad:

sudo gpasswd -a $USER input

After that, log out and log back in to implement group changes.

To check if the user is in the input group, run the following command:

groups

The output should contain the input group.

# Example
input wheel $USER

2. Configuration libinput-gestures

Copy the default configuration file to the user directory:

cp /etc/libinput-gestures.conf ~/.config/libinput-gestures.conf

Edit configuration file:

nano ~/.config/libinput-gestures.conf

Add or change the following line to define the three-finger gesture to the left and right:

gesture swipe left  3 bspc desktop -f next
gesture swipe right 3 bspc desktop -f prev

swipe left: Three fingers slide to the left to move to the next workspace. swipe right: Three fingers slide to the right to move to the previous workspace.

3. Enable libinput-gestures

Run the following command to activate and test the gesture:

libinput-gestures-setup autostart
libinput-gestures-setup start

To ensure it runs automatically at startup, add to the user service system:

libinput-gestures-setup autostart