Ubuntu – Help to disable the multi-touch gestures in 14.04

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Does anyone know how to disable the multi-touch gestures for the touch-pad, specifically the application switcher and Unity launcher?

I have a Asus C710 Chromebook with Ubuntu 14.04 installed natively. When I have more than two fingers on the touch-pad, which happens if i'm scrolling or editing, the application switcher and/or unity launcher take me away from the window i'm on. This has become an extreme annoyance, I have already disabled the application switcher in Compiz, but it still appears.

Best Answer

From the terminal, run synclient to view all touch-pad properties.

Now, according to the official touch-pad support docs in order for multi-touch gestures to work, the touch-pad property ClickFinger3 must equal 0. So we will do the exact opposite:

synclient ClickFinger3=2

Automated Installation

I recently added an installation command to gnome-shell-extension-tool. This is not merged into upstream yet. But the whole tool is just a single Python 3 script. So you can simply download and use my patched version of the file and run the following to install and enable disable-gestures@mattbell.com.au:

# Download extension
wget "https://extensions.gnome.org/extension-data/disable-gestures%40mattbell.com.au.v2.shell-extension.zip"

# Install extension
gnome-shell-extension-tool -i disable-gestures@mattbell.com.au.*.zip

# Enable extension
gnome-shell-extension-tool -e disable-gestures@mattbell.com.au

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