TrackPad/TouchPad Gestures for History Navigation

jackiewastaken

Where can I go to access these changes? I currently see no settings for "touchpad" or "trackpad" gestures when in the settings outside of the pre-existing "Perform Gestures with Alt Key" setting which as many already have mentioned, is not what we're looking for.

EaZy5D

@gianniskarmas Can this be applied in vivaldi by modding

cukabeka

@midoni Are you on a Mac?

For me, I still have this annoying behavior that when scrolling a browser window horizontally with the default MacOS 2-Finger Scrolling, I can accidentally navigate back and forth. This also happens on the Tab bar if I have lots of tabs open and try to get from one end to the other with touch pad scrolling.
I'd love if someone from the vivaldi team with a mac would look into this.

maillo

@jackiewastaken I actually don't understand what that feature "Perform Gestures with Alt Key" does for the trackpad. I've been using Chrome on my laptop just for this reason but I wanna come back to Vivaldi.

jbcrib

Just started using Vivaldi as my main browser on laptop, desktop and Android phone. Noticed two swipes left and right for back/forward doesn't work. Really weird. This is basic navigation on a laptop that works with all other browsers.

II really hope the devs understand how important and basic this feature is and implement it asap.

mib2berlin

@jbcrib
Hi, it is absolute irrelevant for me, for example.
On touch pads this work with the Alt key but not on tablets, mobiles.
I poke the developers about why this is still not working.
The bug report about is VB-46256.

Cheers, mib

nomadic

@jbcrib If you have a Windows Precision Touchpad, then you can fairly easily work around this. (In my case, my touchpad originally used ELAN drivers, but I replaced them with the Windows driver.)

In Touchpad settings under the Devices section of Windows settings, You can find an option called Advanced gesture configuration in the column to the right.

You can then set either a 3 finger or 4 finger swipe to do forward/backward navigation. I set it to up and down swipes to preserve the original program switching of left/right.

Image showing my settings

While it isn't the 2 finger swipe to the side that you are used to, it is fairly easy to adjust to. As an added benefit, you can navigate forward/back while pinch zoomed in.

Sloppypoppy

How many people should ask the developers to add two-finger touchpad gesture control (swipe two fingers to the right for "back", swipe two fingers to the left for "forward"). The first topic with this request was in 2018. <- topic

Pesala

@Sloppypoppy Pleased don't post duplicates. It just makes unnecessary work for the volunteers, and makes not the slightest difference to when/if a feature gets implemented.

Pesala

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kayjaysg

I second this. Would be great with two-finger swipe to navigate history.

FAlves

Please

implement this two fingers swipe. I though I had seen a mod that performed this, but not able to find where,

wredmatic

For those of you who want to use two finger swipe to navigate forward/back AND to pan from left to right, I recently discovered that GestureSign can trigger actions based on the distance that your fingers travel during a gesture. I have mine setup to perform a forward/back action ONLY if my fingers travel more than 30% of the length of the trackpad. This way I can use small swipes to pan left/right and large swipes to perform forward/back actions.

To mimic my settings, use the following trigger condition for back:
(finger_1_end_X%-finger_1_start_X%) >30

and this condition for forward:
(finger_1_start_X%-finger_1_end_X%) >30

Obviously if you want to change the minimum distance, just increase or decrease "30".

apt223

I cannot believe that something this basic has been requested over four years ago [EDIT: this is close to half a decade ago. Someone born when this issue was opened is now experiencing kindergarten, full of hope that things like double-swipes become universal by the time he owns his first Karimaus 7000]

Mosagi

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Mosagi

I really hope devs will take interest in this request. It’s such a basic features on other browsers that it baffles my mind vivaldi team has not implemented it yet.

azohc

Is vivaldi open source? I'd volunteer to help get this fix deployed asap lol

Ayespy

@azohc The portion of Vivaldi, the UI, which mediates this action, is not open source. Re-writing the UI to work with touchpad detection and swipes on all devices (as the code is different for every device) is not trivial.

lizsugar

Really hoping this actually gets implemented! Just moved from Edge, where I used these gestures (and pinch to zoom that did not adjust the page zoom) all the time, part of my normal workflow.

nomadic

@lizsugar For the pinch to zoom that behaves like zooming in on a picture instead of by adjusting the page zoom level, you need to change a setting. Go to vivaldi://settings/webpages/ and disable Use Ctrl+Scroll to Zoom Page.