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MyGestures - mouse gestures for linux
Mouse gestures - "draw" commands using your mouse/touchscreen/touchpad.
Now with multitouch gestures on synaptics touchpads (experimental).
Installing from source:
sudo apt install autoconf libtool libx11-dev pkg-config libxrender-dev libxtst-dev libxml2-dev
cd mygestures/
sh autogen.sh
make
sudo make install
Usage:
mygestures # use default button on default device
mygestures -l # list device names
mygestures -d 'elan touchscreen' # mygestures running against a touchscreen device.
mygestures -d 'synaptics' # experimental synaptics multitouch mode (3 finger gestures).
Configuration:
Gestures configuration is done on "~/.config/mygestures/mygestures.xml".
This file contains movements, contexts and gestures.
Movement: a name assigned to a composition of elementar strokes: (U, D, R, L, 1, 3, 7, 9).
<movement name="UpRight" value="UR" />
<movement name="U" value="DRU" />
<movement name="V" value="39" />
<movement name="C" value="U?LDRU?" />
Context: 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>
Gesture: Will use a movement to trigger some actions
<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>
Supported actions:
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 program with the active window -->
<do action="exec" value="gedit" /> <!-- execute command -->
KeyPress
Key names can be found on /usr/include/X11/keysymdef.h
<do action="keypress" value="Alt_L+Left" /> <!-- send key sequence -->
Gestures are created inside contexts, so you can filter what applications will have any gesture.
