Feature Request: XFCE Touchpad Gestures For Switching Workspaces

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I was really surprised by the fact that CTRL + ALT + left/right arrow can switch workspaces in QubesOS 4.2.3. Since most QubesOS users are running laptops with 1080p screen resolution, it might be especially interesting to find a good way to map this shortcut to the three-finger swipe gesture on touchpads. This would allow you to have two full-screen application windows on two virtual workspace and switch between them as easily as GNOME.

As far as I know, such a touchpad gesture is not natively supported by XFCE, and QubesOS has its own overhead in many cases. Has anyone found a solution to make the swipe gesture possible? Would you agree that such a feature is worth pursuing?

Maybe install touchegg in dom0? That is scary…

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It would be convenient, but I would not use the feature myself.

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Most dependencies for touchégg should be already installed in dom0 and it is packaged in fedora already.

The project has 32 contributors, 173 forks and it exists since a few years, there is little risk to install it in dom0 IMO.

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I agree with you. It also has quite a few stars and is also packaged (accepted) by many other distributions. I am currently traveling, but will try it out and keep you updated as soon as I am back in my office with my testing machine.

Happy New Year.

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