Comment by jwatt | Hacker News Reader

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Thanks for your work on this!

Your report says Firefox gestures are working on Wayland, and two finger swiping left/right appears to be configured in the Firefox prefs to go back/forward in history:

  browser.gesture.swipe.left = Browser:BackOrBackDuplicate 
  browser.gesture.swipe.right = Browser:ForwardOrForwardDuplicate

However, Firefox doesn't respond to these gestures. Do you know what's up with that? (I'm on Fedora 35, if that's relevant.) Two finger scrolling up/down works just fine.

Interesting, this feature may only be for touchscreens because two-finger swipes are registered as scrolls on Wayland. This will indeed need further work.

What does work though is two-finger pinch gesture to zoom in/out of a web page.

I dug up the Mozilla bug:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1539730

IIRC these weren't for two finger swipes at least on macOS (which is the only place I saw this working). I think these were handling 3-finger swipes. Unfortunately now GNOME chomps 3-finger swipes so IDK if that is where the problem is (I guess someone without GNOME can try and see).

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