TouchPad Gestures

mutaman

We need touchpad gestures , every broswer has it.

jumpsq

pinch to zoom should be working (at least it is for me, I had to disable it with --disable-pinch), but I agree that also two-finger side scrolling (to go back/forward in the browsing history), three finger gestures (to move in between tabs), and possibly even more or configurable settings make a lot of sense.

There are already a Feature Request for history navigation, but I understand that your request is broader.
https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/31658/trackpad-touchpad-gestures-for-history-navigation

Depending on your platform, you may be able to emulate certain behaviour (e.g. using libinput-gestures on linux systems I can switch in between tabs with 3-finger gestures, and I'm sure that there is equivalent software that supports multi-touch touchpads for both windows and macos). Having this integrated in vivaldi would certainly be great, but I believe that 3+ finger gestures may be overloaded on many systems with different tasks (often times by the desktop environment), which is why I assume that only 2 finger gestures could relatively reliably be configured, if at all.

// see this solution for windows 3 finger gestures: https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/29550/touch-and-touchpad-swipes-to-go-forward-and-back/6

WildEnte

@jumpsq for pinch to Zoom you just have to go to

Settings => Webpages => scrolled down to Default Webpage Zoom. I saw that the "Use Ctrl + Scroll to Zoom Page"

(quoted from a post by @Rangumi in this thread:

https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/48209/pinch-zooming-feature-to-be-enabled-via-touchpad/8?_=1631798043976
)

jumpsq

@wildente Interesting find.

I've assigned my pinch gesture on the touchpad to some other functionality (as mentioned above, I deliberately disable pinch-zoom when starting vivaldi), but it would be interesting if there was some way to decouple this from touchscreen pinching. I guess that one can only have neither or both .

Concerning the thread: @mutaman, what exactly to you wish for? I don't know what every (other) browser has.