I am a long-time Mac user and am trying out Fedora Workstation (dual-boot) on my aging Macbook Pro. I cannot seem to get the same gestures working on my trackpad as macOS and seeking assistance. I would like:
Three finger drag
Drag lock. I have used dconf-editor to enable tap-and-drag-lock, but it does not seem to make any difference
Two-finger tap right-click. Two-finger force-press works, but not a simple tap
These may seem like small affordances, I have too many years of muscle memory to make it an easy transition. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
I don’t know of any (hidden) feature that would do that.
I am not using drag lock, but later today I will be able to access one of my old MacBooks converted to Fedora, and will check if it’s working on that system.
This is working for me, but on a MacBook generation that had no force-press implemented yet.
GNOME-Tweaks (available in the repos as gnome-tweaks) and Refine (available as Flatpak from Flathub as page.tesk.Refine) are apps that offer some tweaking as well (both are mostly updating the dconf database).
You might want to have a look at the option of swapping Cmd with Ctrl, if you’re interested in keeping the old Mac-like behavior of keyboard shortcuts involving Cmd key.
What generation of MBP do you have? There are some online resources that mention patches in order to make a few things working on Macs, but I didn’t need going that route.
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