Gestures doesn't work in gnome 40

[kr8b]

Today I updated the system, and with that came the Gnome 40. The gestures are not working, do I need to activate them somehow?

[DenisV]

The gestures only work on Wayland. That might be the cause. If you have an nvidia card Gnome will disable wayland by default. You can enable wayland following this thread:

[Howto] Use wayland with propietary nvidia drivers

Difficulty: ★★★☆☆ Wayland does not play well with proprietary drivers. Currently the biggest issue is that NVIDIA does currently not support Xwayland properly, so apps that require it get software rendering. This includes most games, which are the most common use case for proprietary NVIDIA drivers. This is why GNOME automatically disables Wayland if you have NVIDIA. However, if this does not deter you, you can use Wayland with NVIDIA drivers. Here is how to do it: If not using GN…

Note that xwayland support for nvidia cards is only several days old so enabling wayland will have some downsides as well. The ones I’ve notices so far are slightly blurry windows for the xwayland based apps and the fact that Firefox doesn’t let me screenshare when I set its wayland env-variable (Chromium in xwayland does).

[kr8b]

Thanks!

[Yochanan]

On X11, you can use the X11 Gestures ^AUR extension.

[lukewhite]

Thanks for this - I’d just add one other thing that had me foxed for a bit and thought it might help others going down this route. I spotted that X11 Gestures requires touchegg (also available from the AUR), but it took a bit of digging to realise that you also need to enable/start the touchegg daemon as this doesn’t happen automatically - there are instructions on the touchegg github page for doing this. Once I did that, gestures were up and running on X11.