Mouse gestures - "draw" commands using your mouse/touchscreen/touchpad. Now with multitouch gestures on synaptics touchpads (experimental).
sudo apt install pkg-config autoconf libtool libx11-dev libxrender-dev libxtst-dev libxml2-dev git make
git clone https://github.com/deters/mygestures.git
cd mygestures/
sh autogen.sh
./configure
make
sudo make install
After installing from source:
sudo apt install debhelper
dpkg-buildpackage # it'll probably complain about not being able to sign the package. thats fine.
ls ../mygestures*.deb
mygestures # use default button (button 3) on default device (Virtual core pointer)
mygestures -l # list device names
mygestures -d 'elan touchscreen' # mygestures running against an specific device
mygestures -m # experimental synaptics multitouch mode *
# * see next section
Installing the custom synaptics driver:
sudo apt-get install -y git build-essential libevdev-dev autoconf automake libmtdev-dev xorg-dev xutils-dev libtool
sudo apt-get remove -y xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
git clone https://github.com/Chosko/xserver-xorg-input-synaptics.git
cd xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
./autogen.sh
./configure --exec_prefix=/usr
make
sudo make install
Enable the option SHMConfig:
sudo mkdir -p /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/
cat > /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf < EOL
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "evdev touchpad catchall"
Driver "synaptics"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
MatchIsTouchpad "on"
Option "Protocol" "event"
Option "SHMConfig" "on"
EndSection
EOL
Reboot the computer and then test the new driver:
synclient -m 10
And then in mygestures:
mygestures -m
In the first execution mygestures will create a configuration file for your user:
~/.config/mygestures/mygestures.xml
Mygestures works by capturing your mouse movements and define them in terms of basic directions:
U - (Up)
D - (Down)
R - (Right)
L - (Left)
7 - (Top left corner)
9 - (Top right corner)
1 - (Bottom left corner)
3 - (Bottom right corner)
A "movement" can be defined by composing this directions under a name.
<movement name="T" value="RLD" /> <!-- T is a sequence of right+left+down -->
<movement name="V" value="39" /> <!-- V needs more precision to be defined.-->
<movement name="C" value="U?LDRU?" /> <!-- C (notice the use of regex) -->
Then you should define some contexts (used to filter applications):
<context name="Terminal windows" windowclass=".*(Term|term).*" windowtitle=".*">
<!-- some gestures here -->
</context>
<context name="All applications" windowclass=".*" windowtitle=".*">
<!-- some gestures here -->
</context>
Inside each context you can define the gestures:
<gesture name="Run gedit" movement="G">
<do action="exec" value="gedit" />
</gesture>
<gesture name="Copy (Ctrl+C)" movement="C">
<do action="keypress" value="Control_L+C" />
</gesture>
Example of actions can be:
Window management
<do action="maximize" /> <!-- put focused window to the maximized state -->
<do action="restore" /> <!-- restore window from maximized state -->
<do action="iconify" /> <!-- iconify window -->
<do action="toggle-maximized" /> <!-- toggle focused window from/to the maximized state -->
<do action="raise" /> <!-- raise current window -->
<do action="lower" /> <!-- lower current window -->
Program operation
<do action="kill" /> <!-- kill the current application -->
<do action="exec" value="gedit" /> <!-- launch some program -->
KeyPress
<do action="keypress" value="Alt_L+Left" /> <!-- send key sequence -->
More key names can be found on the file /usr/include/X11/keysymdef.h
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