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Custom and chained gestures #298

@digitalsignalperson

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@digitalsignalperson

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Limited in how many gestures that can be configured, and ones that are easy to do (e.g. hard to use 4 fingers for frequent operations).

Describe the solution you'd like
Could we record custom gestures, or chain multiple types of gestures together?

E.g. hold one finger and swipe up with another
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Hold one finger and up/down swipe the other
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custom shapes
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direction changes
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Describe alternatives you've considered
There's a fusuma plugin that can add holding a key down as a modifier which allows for a bit more options. But it would be cool to just chain multiple gestures together.

Additional context
I'm inspired by the types of gestures available for GestureSign on windows https://github.com/TransposonY/GestureSign
which also includes letting you draw your own gestures

It's open source so maybe some of the code can be recycled

Here's a screenshot of it's control panel with the default gestures it comes with:
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Here's what it looks like recording a custom gesture
I held two fingers down with one hand, and drew a triangle with the other
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Another interesting feature it has is specifying gestures either by program name, or globally. This could probably be handled with some xdotool stuff and checking what the active window title is.

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