state of multitouch gestures in 14.04 / Unity

On the latest ubuntu, all the advanced multi-touch only work from the touchscreen, not from the touchpad.

So what is left is:

• scroll (two fingers drag up or down),
• list of running software (3 fingers double tap)
• launcher (4 fingers tap)

all the other advanced multitouch gestures are only available from the screen. I'm still puzzled by that design choice.

Touchégg seems to work with 14.04 (I'm on 14.10, can't confirm/deny) https://code.google.com/p/touchegg/

According to the Unity Gesture UI Guidelines only the "4 finger" and "1 finger edge" are hard-coded into Unity. I can attest to the fact that most gestures on Wacom tablets can be easily disabled without recompiling Unity (using xsetwacom), however the "4 finger" gesture that opens the dash (which is inadvertently triggered often by my knuckles while writing on the Wacom) is annoyingly persistent.

Update: Recompiling Unity to remove the offending code which pertains to the four finger touches was pretty painless and well outlined in another thread.

I have written a guide to do this. Basically, in order for this to work, you must use a forked syndaemon driver. You will also use a program called xswipe. Follow this link.