OS X has a feature where you can use three fingers to do the equivalent of click-and-drag, sparing you the annoying tap-then-tap-again-and-move-quickly dance normally required.
Is there a way to enable this on Ubuntu for, say, moving tabs around in Chrome?
Note: I'm aware that Unity has re-purposed three finger gestures. I'm not using Unity, and very much want generic click-and-drag via three finger touch.
Ubuntu does different: Double tap, but dont release. Is the new three finger drag. Also, it works the same on Windows (not that it matters), and works quite ok for me, for now.
Just had to find out, that was the hardest part.
Since you don't have unity you should be able to just install touchegg from the Ubuntu Software Center and then for a nice gui you can download and install the touchegg gui from here: https://github.com/Raffarti/Touchegg-gce
Touchegg is awesome by the way! I programmed 3,4 and 5 finger gestures to do anything i wanted. You can program clicks as well as different swipes as well. it's pretty awesome.
You can build https://wayland.freedesktop.org/libinput/doc/latest/building.html Ubuntu and has some cool features. It also has 3 finger gesture. You can configure it to do drag. Here https://wayland.freedesktop.org/libinput/doc/latest/gestures.html. I am using it for Gnome Xorg in Ubuntu 20.04.
. I am also trying to have the same 3 finger drag using Trackpad 2. By the way, libinput is smoother like in Macs than Touchegg. I'll share my knowledge here while I go.