Deepin Gestures.md

Wanted to report back on some research and success enabling middle click action.

deepin doesn’t use libinput-gestures nor gesture-manager, although this is probably the correct answer on vanilla arch.

Deepin uses a built in touchpad solution controlled by dde-daemon. All touchpad gestures are controlled by the file /usr/share/dde-daemon/gesture.json. To enable middle click via 3-finger tap, add the following entry in the json array:

   {
        "Name": "tap",
        "Direction": "none",
        "Fingers": 3,
        "Action": {
            "Type": "commandline",
            "Action": "xdotool click 2"
        }
    }

Ensure xdotool is installed, which passes command line actions to the X server. Logging out and in didn’t seem to enable it for me, but rebooting did.

Including the entire /usr/share/dde-daemon/gesture.json file for reference. As a bonus, this also lists all available multitouch gestures and what they do.

Hello,
I doesn't work for me on Deepin 15.11

I would like to add support to go back/forward in a browser with the touchpad (equivalent of alt left/rigth). I modify the gesture.json but it doesn't work.
Here are my modifications :
{
"Name": "swipe",
"Direction": "left",
"Fingers": 4,
"Action": {
"Type": "commandline",
"Action": "xdotool key alt+Right"
}
},
{
"Name": "swipe",
"Direction": "right",
"Fingers": 4,
"Action": {
"Type": "commandeline",
"Action": "xdotool key alt+Left"
}
},

xdotool is well installed.

Got this somewhere from the Internet. The gestures worked for me though I think they only handle touchpad multi touch gestures for switching between multiple desktops and not browser specifically. Something like what Mac OS does for fullscreen windows