Fusuma, multi-touch gestures for Linux, updated to v2!

Fusuma v2 is released! 🎉

iberianpig / fusuma

Multitouch gestures with libinput driver on Linux

Fusuma

Fusuma is multitouch gesture recognizer This gem makes your linux able to recognize swipes or pinchs and assign commands to them.

襖(Fusuma) means sliding door used to partition off rooms in a Japanese house.

Features

• Easy installation with RubyGems
• Define gestures and actions in YAML format
• Sensitivity settings (threshold, interval) for gesture recognition
• Automatic addition of external touchpads
• Feature extension via a plugin system

Installation

Grant permission to read the touchpad device

IMPORTANT: You MUST be a member of the INPUT group to read touchpad by Fusuma.

sudo gpasswd -a $USER input

Then, You apply the change with no logout or reboot.

newgrp input

IMPORTANT: This makes /dev/input/ readable, so if that's an issue for you for some reason (like for privacy- or securityconcerns etc. or if it causes other parts of your OS to misbehave), consider this your heads-up.

For Debian Based Distros (Ubuntu, Debian, Mint,

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View on GitHub

There are a lot of updates in Fusuma v2.

• Performance improvements with multiprocessing and IO multiplexing.
• Real-time continuation gestures
• Contextual switching of gesture settings and other enhancements!

Update Fusuma

You can update Fusuma with the gem command.
No need to use sudo if you haven't installed it using system-wide Ruby.

$ sudo gem update fusuma

If you have any installed Fusuma plugins, update them all.

List fusuma plugins

$ sudo gem list fusuma-plugin-
fusuma-plugin-keypress (0.4.1)
fusuma-plugin-sendkey (0.6.2)
fusuma-plugin-wmctrl (0.4.3)

Update fusuma plugins

$ sudo gem update fusuma-plugin-sendkey fusuma-plugin-wmctrl fusuma-plugin-keypress

More powerful tweaks with Fusuma v2!🦾

Some useful features have been available using the v2 API.

• App-specific gesture settings (iberianpig/fusuma-plugin-appmatcher)
• Mac OS style three-finger drag
• Windows-style 3-finger swipe to switch windows
• Swipe/rotate to adjust volume and change brightness.

I will write a series of articles about these configuration details.

↓ BTW, I realized that three-finger drag was really useful after I implemented it.

Watch Fusuma Wiki🤓

Some configs have already been added to the fusuma Wiki.

Anyone can edit this Fusuma Wiki.
It also contains settings for various distributions or WM(Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Pop!_OS, KDE, i3...). If you find any valuable configurations, please share them on Fusuma Wiki. I look forward to seeing new tips.

Next Articles

Configure application-specific gestures with Fusuma v2!

Kohei Yamada ・ Jun 12 '21

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