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Are these four-finger gestures customizable? Is there perchance a profile for the incoming macOS user to match what they expect?

Edit: I suppose the assumption, based on the paragraph and screenshot, is that they update depending on the arrangement of workspaces: horizontal vs vertical




I just want 2-finger gestures to be configurable (or at least the same as on Windows as I use both). For some reason it has been almost impossible to get a two-finger left/right swipe to act as forward/back actions (the only browser it works for is Epiphany, which doesn't support plugins until the most recent version)


Using PopOS, I have three-finger left/right mapped to back/forward in Firefox. Intuitively I would expect two-finger left/right to control horizontal scrolling, although I'm well aware that some browsers/platforms interpret this as back/forward.


Oof. You are indeed welcome to your own customizations, but having the scroll gesture suddenly become a navigation gesture because I dared bump into the end of a scroll area is absolutely infuriating. Customization ftmfw.


The problem is that the two finger gesture isn't customisable in Linux/X/Gnome/Application/I'm-not-even-sure-who's-repsonsible. Or at least it's extremely well hidden.

The gesture works fine for me on Windows and ChromeOS (and OSX which I think was the first). It's more of a long-pull that's hard to accidentally trigger.


Yes, I have PopOS configured to use four-finger gestures to navigate workspaces and bring up the overview of all open windows in a workspace.




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