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vvinrg

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Registered: 2022-01-18

Posts: 3

Get Chromium to do multitouch zoom with no touchscreen.

I use a chromium-based browser. For a while, I was using Arch on a laptop with a touchscreen. During that time, the browser enabled a set of almost phone-like multitouch zoom gestures. Even though I never used the touchscreen all that much, they would work on the trackpad too. I personally find those more useful than the standard set of Ctrl-+ and Ctrl-- zooming options, but, much to my dismay, when I upgraded to a more powerful laptop, with no touchscreen, those gestures were suddenly disabled. I know my trackpad has full multitouch support, but I have yet to find a way to re-enable these gestures. Before I learn uinput and try to trick my browser into thinking there's a touchscreen, does anybody know of a way to get these gestures back, either through xorg config, or some secret environment variable, or something else entirely?

bulletmark

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From: Brisbane, Australia

Registered: 2013-10-22

Posts: 681

Re: Get Chromium to do multitouch zoom with no touchscreen.

I know it does not address your zoom request but I use libinput-gestures (available in AUR) largely for the touchpad gestures I use for Chrome browser. I.e.:

• swipe left = Web browser go forward

• swipe right = Web browser go back

• swipe left_up = Jump to next open web browser tab

• swipe left_down = Jump to previous open web browser tab

• swipe right_up = Close current web browser tab

• swipe right_down = Reopen and jump to last closed web browser tab

• hold on = Open new web browser tab

I use all 6 of the swipe gestures above very frequently and couldn't really live without them.

Last edited by bulletmark (2023-09-16 02:02:26)

siki

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Registered: 2024-08-06

Posts: 1

Re: Get Chromium to do multitouch zoom with no touchscreen.

Try this;

https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/20 … ox-chrome/

your welcome