Three Finger Minimize Gesture

Hi, I recently updated to F42. My main usage is on a laptop, and trackpad gestures have helped me navigate efficiently. After installing the latest version, I noticed that pretty much every other trackpad gesture works besides Three Finger Drag Down for minimizing the currently focused window. Is there a way to get this back?

Hi and welcome to :fedora: !

Are you on GNOME or KDE? If it’s GNOME, then you’re probably using an extension. Maybe it’s not updated for GNOME 48 yet?

Im using GNOME. It could be an extension that allowed the gesture to work, but I recently installed Fedora. Not many extensions at the moment. I remember it working on Arch and Zorin. Not sure if they preinstall extensions for gestures

Three finger drag-down for minimizing the currently focused window is not a default GNOME (and neither Fedora) gesture.

Swiping three fingers up would show the activity window, and three fingers down would revert the previous gesture.

As you’ve probably noticed, by default the minimize button is not even active[1], but can be activated by using GNOME Tweaks (available in the repos).


  1. GNOME’s approach is to use multiple workspaces instead of minimizing windows. ↩︎

I haven’t been able to find an extension that adds triple swipe down to minimize. Are there any that can add this?

This one seems to be updated to shell v. 48:

For minimize gesture to work, the Dash-to-Dock extension has to be installed too.