Questions[touchegg](ubuntu)

I am using ubuntu 18 and trying to use this guide to add mac like trackpad gestures, I did everything and nothing happens. my lenovo laptop supports multi gesture.

What should I do?

Using 16.04 with Unity I have a touchpad and I'd really like not to have to hold a button while I select text or drag & drop something nor the fake double click before dragging, I never found that handy.
I was able to configure this "three finger drag" feature on a Macbook quite easily and really enjoyed it.

I tried to configure it with touchegg but it does not work with Ubuntu 16 and with libinput-gestures but it does not manage the drag & drop.

All I need is to simulate a click while I have 3 fingers down until I release them.

Does someone know how I can achieve that ?

My initial target was to get multitouch gestures work in Spotify (3-finger swipe to change current song etc). I installed Synaptics, created a .xprofile file in home with

synclient TapButton2=0
synclient ClickFinger2=0
synclient TapButton3=0
synclient ClickFinger3=0
synclient HorizTwoFingerScroll=0
synclient VertTwoFingerScroll=0
touchegg &

and added the corresponding lines to the touchegg.conf. However I first wanted to know if my touchpad does even support 3-finger gestures (In my windows-partition it works fine), so I installed geis and ran geisview in the terminal. No devices are shown in the window that pops up, just some classes like "Class 128 Added: Flick" with some details like "class name:b'Flick'". How can I get my Touchpad recognized for touchegg?

I would like to remove touchegg with

sudo apt-get purge touchegg

but the output says that nothing was uninstalled. When I check

dpkg -l

touchegg is not listed among the packages so so far so good. But strangely when I call touchegg from the terminal it still runs.

I'm trying to enable some multitouch gestures to mirror what OS X is capable of doing, such as brushing three fingers across the trackpad to switch desktops, swiping two fingers to navigate back in nautilus or firefox etc. I'm trying to use touchegg, but I'm not sure if ubuntu sees my trackpad as a device with more than two finger support. Two finger scrolling works fine.

1. Does touchegg work in Ubuntu 12.04?
2. How can I find out if my trackpad (Dell XPS L502x) supports 3+ finger support in Ubuntu?
3. Are there any compiz plugins that might help?

I have a friend who is trying to achieve the same thing on his Sony Vaio, because he can do most of the aforementioned gestures in Windows.

Thanks for any help!