Fedora 41 Gnome workstation Bosto touchpad 3 or 4 finger gestures not working

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Hello,

an external touchpad from Bosto does not work completely with my system.
https://www.bostotablet.com/prod_view.aspx?TypeId=97&id=356&fid=t3:97:3

I tried Touchpad on another PC with Ubuntu 24.04. It works incl. gesture control with 3 and 4 fingers.
For Fedora 41 one or two finger functionality possible but no gnome related controls with gestures not working.
I can connect it via bluetooth and found BOSTO related entries.
with
sudo libinput list-devices
no output if for swipe inputs

sudo libinput list-devices

…
Device: BOSTO Keyboard
Kernel: /dev/input/event26
Group: 9
Seat: seat0, default
Capabilities: keyboard pointer
Tap-to-click: n/a
Tap-and-drag: n/a
Tap drag lock: n/a
Left-handed: n/a
Nat.scrolling: disabled
Middle emulation: n/a
Calibration: n/a
Scroll methods: none
Click methods: none
Disable-w-typing: n/a
Disable-w-trackpointing: n/a
Accel profiles: n/a
Rotation: 0.0

Device: BOSTO Mouse
Kernel: /dev/input/event27
Group: 9
Seat: seat0, default
Capabilities: pointer
Tap-to-click: n/a
Tap-and-drag: n/a
Tap drag lock: n/a
Left-handed: disabled
Nat.scrolling: disabled
Middle emulation: disabled
Calibration: n/a
Scroll methods: button
Click methods: none
Disable-w-typing: n/a
Disable-w-trackpointing: n/a
Accel profiles: flat *adaptive custom
Rotation: 0.0
…
I tried gnome extension window-gestures but no success.

Thank you in advance!

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Welcome to Fedora @budscoop

Have you checked on https://linux-hardware.org/ if it is listed to work with F41?

Ubuntu delivers with any kind of drivers while Fedora just delivers open source Software which is free.

You could run the computer with a live iso from ubuntu and check with inxi -Fzxx to see which driver the device uses.
Afterwards you would have to search if this specific driver is available on Fedora.

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Hello,

Thank you for prompt feedback.

I did not found any Bosto part inside data base at linux-hardware.org

I tried inxi -Fzxx with Ubuntu 24.10 on same PC - as a parallel system.
I connected it with different modes via usb, stick and bluetooth.
I did not found any touchpad related info with this comand for all 3 connection mode

extract:
…

Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Cambridge Silicon Radio Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode) driver: btusb
    v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-4.4:9
    chip-ID: 0a12:0001
  Report: hciconfig ID: hci1 rfk-id: 1 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 4.0
    lmp-v: 6 sub-v: 22bb
  Device-2: IMC Networks Bluetooth Radio driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB
    rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-8:5 chip-ID: 13d3:3533
  Report: ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 4.2 lmp-v: 8
    sub-v: 8821

…

Thank you.

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You can also use lsusb to see if it is seen by the kernel. If this is the case chances to make it work is there.
I also observed on their website that they just are compatible for mac and win.

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