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Gestures For The Linux Desktop
geoffsmith writes "Just stumbled upon a gesture system for the linux desktop called 'wayV'. It works similarly to Mozilla gestures, except at windowing system level. For example, hold down the middle mouse button and draw an 'N' and netscape pops up, or draw a slash through a window and it kills the window's process. There are .debs available and the author is currently porting it to win32."
This software is allready in Debian, so all you Debian heads, save the author's website, and install with:
# apt-get install wayv
(well, actually sudo aptitude install wayv for me, but that's beside the point)
FVWM has supported gestures through LibStoke (apparently what wayV uses as well) for quite some time.
No idea, but StrokeIt sounds similar.
Personally I feel the only gestures worth bothering with is the hold-mousebutton-click-other for navigating back/forward.
Belief is the currency of delusion.
Liar. You're just trying to sound like a keyboard snob. Opera gestures don't happen by themselves -- you have to hold the right mouse button down. I also highlight text to break pages apart to make them easier to read, and I have never accidentally kicked off an Opera gesture, and Opera is my primary browser. In addition, you can turn the gestures off. There is no way for gestures in Opera to "get in the way".
I wrote something similar for BeOS - it's called FourWays. Now the trick is that all BeOS applications use BMessages for communications, and that in conjunction with SpiceyKeys, you can use gestures to control any BeOS application.
Also, theres Cocoa Gestures for MacOS X.