Gestikk - mouse gesture recognition in Ubuntu
Posted by admin on June 21st, 2008 
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Gestikk Features
- On-Screen and on-the-fly gesture painting
- powerful condition parsing => define one gesture, but multiple actions
- gesture notifications (ballontip / on-screen-display)
- a better gesture recognition algorithm
Install gestikk in Ubuntu Hardy
First you need to download gestikk .deb package from here
wget http://gestikk.reichbier.de/downloads/gestikk_0.6-0ubuntu1_all.deb
Now you have gestikk_0.6-0ubuntu1_all.deb package install .deb package using the following command
sudo dpkg -i gestikk_0.6-0ubuntu1_all.deb
If you get the following error at the time of installation
Selecting previously deselected package gestikk.
(Reading database … 119493 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking gestikk (from gestikk_0.6-0ubuntu1_all.deb) …
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gestikk:
gestikk depends on python-kiwi; however:
Package python-kiwi is not installed.
gestikk depends on python-pyparsing (>= 1.4.7); however:
Package python-pyparsing is not installed.
dpkg: error processing gestikk (–install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
gestikk
Use the following command to fix
sudo apt-get -f install
This will complete the installation
Using Gestikk
If you want to start gestikk use the following command from your terminal
gestikk
or
if you want to configuration menu use the following command
gestikk -c
Once it opens you should see similar to the following icon in your notification area
If you want to configure you need to right click and select preferences
Now you can see similar to the following screen where you can configure gesture switch,Tolerance etc
You can add your own gestures here
OSD options
Notification options
Sample gesture screen
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June 22nd, 2008 at 4:20 pm
Wow what a cool little app — I’ve never considered Firefox’s mouse gestures addon to be anything extremely useful, while those who use it swear by it — but controlling the whole OS seems oh so very handy! Does this work in KDE? That is my main question, as nothing is worth the switch to Gnome.
I was not able to install this .deb onto my Debian Lenny computer, due to that I am missing “python-virtkey”; I will go off looking for this now.
Are the gesture files stored individually, making them ideal to be swapped with friends, etc? Or is it all in a single file, easier for backups but difficult to swap gestures? An online community could be built around various gestures, but I would imagine that after a while there are limits to what one would want to do with gestures…
June 24th, 2008 at 7:40 am
Ahh, this reminds me of the wonderful Peter moulineaux’s videogame Black & White. If it only was combined with the starry mouse cursor in Compiz, and some presets were previoudly defined… (And if I was God…)
July 3rd, 2008 at 11:40 am
@Lefty.crupps:
1. python-virtkey can also be found und launchpad: https://launchpad.net/virtkey
2. gestikk works with nearly every windowmanager, including KWin, Fluxbox, Openbox…
3. gesture import and export will be included in next (0.7) gestikk version
Is there someone german-speaking who could translate our manual in english? My english isn’t that good….:)
Have fun with gestikk!
July 30th, 2008 at 2:27 am
Lefty, KDE has mouse gestures built in. You can configure them in the KDE control center under “input actions”.