Gnome theoretically supports a series of basic touchscreen gestures but most of them aren’t working as of Gnome 48 (using Bazzite on a Framework 12). Does anyone know what happened to them or how to restore them? I’ve been Googling, but no luck so far.
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I use Ubuntu 25.04, but have not had time to test it. Will try to see if it works there in a few days.
Could have something to do with Xorg / Wayland? Personally still use an Xorg session. Not familiar with Bazzite but Ubuntu made the switch to default to Wayland sessions some time ago.
Maybe gestures don’t work out-of-the-box under Wayland? You could search for Gnome extensions like this one and see if it changes anything: Touchpad Gesture Customization - GNOME Shell Extensions
Had a few minutes to play around:
- only tested display gestures in laptop mode
- bringing up the keyboard by swiping up from the bottom works
- application overview works if I swipe up with three or more fingers anywhere on the screen
- pinching two fingers in a browser does zoom in / out, which is handy
You might look into touchegg and touche (the GUI to configure touchegg). Have not tested if touchegg works and did not have time to install touche to configure touchegg, as I don’t use flatpak on my laptop currently.
Fedora Workstation has fewer working gestures, for me. Swipe from bottom to trigger keyboard, 3+ finger swipe left/right no navigate to different virtual desktop, 3+ finger swipe up to open activities, and pinch-to-zoom. Touchegg does not work on Wayland. I would love to find a good way to customize gestures.
The big one that’s missing for me is wanting to be able to swipe left to trigger a back action in the browser similar to android.