I'm still trying to get myself over to linux, and I'm having a hard time finding a replacement for BetterTouchTool. Essentially, the app lets you customize multitouch trackpad gestures per-app and system wide with single to 5 finger support.
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Linux Mint's Cinnamon has an involved gesture pref panel, but it's not per app, it's system-wide. If the suggestion from the other user for touche/touchegg don't work due to being designed for X11, you're out of luck. What you're asking is a bit too specialized and from what I read from the creator of touchegg on his github, is that Wayland has no way to support these features. So don't expect it in the future either.
Yeah, I’m basically going to have to refuse to use any app that’s lacking in Wayland support. Really no reason to build a Linux ecosystem that has legacy parts from the get go.
From the developer, he said that Wayland has no way to support these features, not that he won't support them. You need the right APIs to develop this app, and while X11 seems to have them, Wayland does not.