Ubuntu with Easystroke
Why Ask Ubuntu recommends it
Ask Ubuntu answerers link it as a quick demo of Easystroke when suggesting mouse gestures for closing windows, switching workspaces or replacing Windows-only gesture tools.
Recommended by 2 people across 2 different months, 2011 to 2012.
What it is
A roughly two-minute screen capture of Ubuntu 10.04 being driven by mouse gestures through the Easystroke application. The uploader shares his settings and notes the footage was converted with mencoder for use in Blender.
What people said
Recommends Denwerko · 2011-07 · Ask Ubuntu · on “Is there any way I can get Scrybe (Gesture Workflow Technology)?”
Scrybe provides only .exe, no word about supporting X server. But there are maybe few possibilities, found on [LINK] easystroke looks good, but havent tried it personally [LINK] [this video]
Recommends minimec · 2012-08 · Ask Ubuntu · on “How to Close Windows (And Applications) by Middle-Click”
Ubuntu and Unity still depend on metacity(!) for this kind of action. So you would find all possible 'titlebar action' possibilities in gconf-editor >apps>metacity>general. Unfortunatelly (as in gnome3) there is no 'window close' option. As there is no 'out of the box' solution for your idea, my approach would be different. Most of your application will have a 'close' or 'quit' keyboard shortcut. That might be >ctrl< q for QUIT, or >ctrl< w for WINDOW CLOSE, or >ctrl<>shift< q to QUIT a gnome-terminal. I would now install the software easystroke and add a mouse gesture for the given command. The same mouse gesture can have a different command, following the active window. Let's say a 'right
Cites Panther · 2012-03 · Ask Ubuntu · on “Touchpad gestures to change workspace”
Your touchpad (hardware) needs to support this feature and you then may need to configure your touchpad (Ubuntu automatically recognizes and enables some hardware). One common drier is synaptic. You can enable two finger scrolling from the mouse and touchpad section in the control panel. If you wish additional options you will need to manually edit a few configuration files and the options are hardware dependent. There is a debugging page here: [LINK] Take a look at that page, if you can identify your hardware we can perhaps give you more specific assistance. An example of hardware specific guides: [LINK] Consider easystroke You can also take a look at "easystroke" [LINK] Here is a demo of e