Installation

User needs be in input group

sudo usermod -aG input $USER

• For Fedora Silverblue

# group 'input' needs to be in /etc/group first
grep -E '^input:' /usr/lib/group | sudo tee -a /etc/group
sudo usermod -aG input $USER

From releases

• Download zip file from releases
• Extract zip file
• Inside extracted folder, Run

# Without sudo/root
sh install.sh # Reboot is needed after this

# ** OR ** to restart daemon, without rebooting
sh install.sh --restart

Distributions

• Arch Linux/Manjaro Linux - gnome-x11-gesture-daemon Thanks to @yochananmarqos

yay -S gnome-x11-gesture-daemon

Build from source

Using docker/podman

make build-docker && make install

Without docker/podman

• First install build dependencies

# dnf/rpm based distributions
sudo dnf install libinput-devel

# apt/deb based distributions
sudo apt install libinput-dev

• Then build and install

make build && make install

Troubleshooting

• First make sure you've restarted your system after installing.

• Run following command to check if service is running properly (It should be running on X11).

systemctl --user status gesture_improvements_gesture_daemon.service

• Open issue on github, with output of the above command

Uninstallation

# Without sudo/root
sh ./uninstall.sh

Contributors

Swastik Dwivedi

Thanks

@Smithay for rust bindings for libinput

FreeDesktop/Dbus Project for Rust API for D-Bus.