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I’m currently testing Fedora KDE on a VM (windows host) before eventually switching over to Linux completely.

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[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How are you swiping, out of curiosity? I have windows occupying the whole screen.

I switch workspaces with a keyboard shortcut or by clicking buttons on the panel.

[–] Knusper@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's with three fingers on a touchpad.

There's some short clips of it here: https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/5/5.25.0/

[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh I see. But I thought such gestures were available a long time ago, I remember apps like Fusuma, and there was talk of adding them to libinput so that every DE could let the user assign actions to gestures.

[–] Knusper@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, this is now using the libinput gestures. It's mainly exciting, because it's available out-of-the-box, even for non-techies and lazy people (me).

With general technological advances and I believe Windows having similar gestures, it's now also rarely the case that touchpad hardware doesn't support multi-touch input...