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José Expósito edited this page Jun 24, 2016 · 6 revisions

Is my device supported by Touchégg?

Touchégg uses a library named uTouch that is developed by Canonical. The list of supported hardware by uTouch is available on the Ubuntu Wiki.

However, the easiest way to test if your device is supported is to open a terminal and run Touchégg:

$ touchegg

If you perform gestures and your device is supported, the information about them will appear.

I'm using Unity and I can't use gestures with 3 and 4 fingers

Unity reserves to itself gestures with 3 and 4 fingers making impossible to Touchégg make use of them.

I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 and Touchégg doesn't work

On Ubuntu 16.04 Touchégg needs to start before your desktop environment: https://github.com/JoseExposito/touchegg/issues/273#issuecomment-226754580

There is a GUI available to configure Touchégg?

Yes, check out Touchégg-GCE.

In addition you can check this wiki pages to configure your device:

What configuration I need for my multitouch device?

If you are using Ubuntu no configuration is needed.

In Ubuntu Precise (or newer), if you want to use gestures with 2 and 3 fingers, you need to follow the instructions of the Multitouch/TouchpadSupport Ubuntu's wiki page.

You can simply execute these commands to allow Touchégg to use gestures with 2 and 3 fingers:

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

I personally recommend the use of the synaptics to manage gestures with 1 and 2 fingers (left click, right click and two fingers scroll), and Touchégg to manage your personalised gestures with 3 or more fingers. To see how to configure synaptics, check this article.

If you are using a ETPS/2 Elantech touchpad follow this article to enable multitouch.

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