Touchpad Gestures in X11

Unlike Wayland, Mac-like touchpad gestures don't work on X11. To find whether your Ubuntu is Wayland or X11 you can run one of the following commands:

loginctl show-session $(awk '/tty/ {print $1}' <(loginctl)) -p Type | awk -F= '{print $2}'

or 

echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE

If your Ubuntu is X11 follow the below steps:

  1. In the Terminal, enter sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade; sudo apt install gnome-tweaks gnome-shell-extensions gnome-shell-extension-manager
  2. Once you had installed the Extension Manager. Open it and search for X11 and you will find the extension "X11 Gestures". Install it. ../../assets/Pasted image 20230520175259.png
  3. Go back to terminal and add the touchegg repository: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:touchegg/stable
  4. Install touchegg sudo apt install touchegg
  5. Run systemctl to check if touchegg is running systemctl status touchegg

3 fingers to the left or right will switch workspace, 3 fingers down will expose all the windows and swiping 3 fingers down again will show all the apps.