josee
2nd February 2011, 21:05
Want a three-finger pinch on your multi-touch trackpad to minimize all windows? Dream of a five-finger tap emulating your mouse scroll-wheel?
Hyperbole aside, you got it with Touchégg.
Touchégg is a "multitouch gesture recognizer" for Linux, written in C++ , with Qt and utilizing Ubuntu’s uTouch-geis library. It allows users to define what actions are initiated when a multi-touch gesture is made.
Providing the desired gesture is recognised by Touchégg you can assign one of a number of window-related actions to it, including maximize or minimize windows, resize apps, show the desktop, etc.
Setting the ‘actions’ you want is currently achieved through the manual editing of a small configuration file. This isn’t as scary as it sounds; the video below tries admirably to demonstrate how it all works.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jRiEFA7ExY&feature=player_embedded
Note: 720p and fullscreen are your friends
Download
Touchégg is available to download from the project homepage
https://code.google.com/p/touchegg/
Hyperbole aside, you got it with Touchégg.
Touchégg is a "multitouch gesture recognizer" for Linux, written in C++ , with Qt and utilizing Ubuntu’s uTouch-geis library. It allows users to define what actions are initiated when a multi-touch gesture is made.
Providing the desired gesture is recognised by Touchégg you can assign one of a number of window-related actions to it, including maximize or minimize windows, resize apps, show the desktop, etc.
Setting the ‘actions’ you want is currently achieved through the manual editing of a small configuration file. This isn’t as scary as it sounds; the video below tries admirably to demonstrate how it all works.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jRiEFA7ExY&feature=player_embedded
Note: 720p and fullscreen are your friends
Download
Touchégg is available to download from the project homepage
https://code.google.com/p/touchegg/