MacOS -> Linux: BetterTouchTool replacement

[horsey@lemmy.world]

I'm still trying to get myself over to linux, and I'm having a hard time finding a replacement for BetterTouchTool. Essentially, the app lets you customize multitouch trackpad gestures per-app and system wide with single to 5 finger support.

[zeroecks@lemmy.ml]

This would normally be a feature of your window manager or desktop environment, which do you use?

[horsey@lemmy.world]

I’m in the test phase of all the available ones; KDE is by far my favorite, and I really like gnome as well (but I can’t use it because Dropbox relies on application status icons which are absent from gnome; I tried the extensions to bring that back but they didn’t work for me when I tried them a while back)

[djdarren@thelemmy.club]

I’d love BTT on Linux too. The hardest thing for me with a move from macOS to Linux is losing the ability to zip about the OS with a trackpad. Also, I’ve had BTT set for years so that clicking the middle button on a mouse shows Mission Control. God, I wish I could work out how to do that in Mint.

[isveryloud@lemmy.ca]

GNOME's trackpad gestures are excellent, I'm assuming you're using Cinnamon.

[daytonah@lemmy.ml]

In the new plasma/Wayland it is pretty dope.... I make 4 desktops per activity in a matrix shape and use 2 activities work and home and it's pretty easy to zip a out in the OS and switch activities and desktops with muktifinger scroll, and shortcuts for desktops and activity switching....

[stevedice@sh.itjust.works]

Check this out. It only works on KDE, you have to compile it from source and it's a pain in the ass to configure but it seems like it has all the features you're looking for.

You might also need to add

set(CMAKE_POSITION_INDEPENDENT_CODE ON) 

to the CMakeLists to get it to compile.

Such is life.

[ikidd@lemmy.world]

+1 for using Activities. There's dozens of us!

[telepresence@discuss.tchncs.de]

probably off topic, but i never understand people who actually use a trackpad, as i find them horrible to use and carry around a bt mouse w my notebook so i don't have to use the trackpad. if you have the time, could you please explain a bit why you personally use it? Thanks!

[horsey@lemmy.world]

the multitouch trackpad for me is a great way to get the eye candy of having linear animations tied to your finger movement. I use linear animations in MacOS all the time to "peek" between desktops and pages in Safari all the time. The fact of the matter is that linear animations are just far smoother, and useful than ones that snap into place from a single input trigger.