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.
I have an HP dv6-3160 with a "soft" trackpad e.g. the buttons are part of it.
Ubuntu 12.10 works well with it apart from when I want to drag+drop. Because the mouse movement area includes the buttons if I'm holding down the left button I can mess everything up just by a twitch of my left finger (I can of course use tap-to-click and then move things but only up!).
What I'd like to do is be able to set a "dead zone" - just stop all mouse movement in the button area (I have enough space above).
Installed the synaptics package and tried using synclient and setting BottomEdge but no matter what (valid - if I set it too low it errors) value I set it to the mouse behaviour doesn't change.
Many thanks in advance.
I'm interested in using my laptop trackpad as a drawing tablet, i.e. using absolute rather than relative coordinates, similar to Inklet for OSX.
The same question was asked in ubuntuforums.org in May 2010, but the question was never answered. I'm wondering if this has been done on Linux. I'm also trying to figure out which search terms to use. I searched for 'linux laptop touchpad absolute mode', and came up with an issue with track pad drivers which put the trackpad in absolute mode. but I'm really looking for a program which uses the absolute positions rather than a driver setting.
I've searched Google, but haven't found any answer to this. I'm thinking about getting the Logitech T650 wireless touchpad as a replacement for my old mouse. (More information: http://www.logitech.com/en-us/product/touchpad-t650)
The device is targetted toward Windows 8. My question is, will this work under Ubuntu 12.10. And in particular, will the multitouch gestures work?
Is it possible to use inertial two finger scrolling on Ubuntu with a magic mouse and also set up 3 finger swipes to trigger actions in compiz?
Maybe using touchegg? I know it's possible with the Magic Trackpad but what about more than normal mouse usage for the Magic Mouse? Thanks!