Comments on: Gestikk - mouse gesture recognition in Ubuntu

By: sainth

sainth — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:31:14 +0000

I have the same problem as Khaled Gomaa… Could somebody please help?

By: Khaled Gomaa

Khaled Gomaa — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 22:22:27 +0000

i cant connect to the download page to download the .deb fil i don know y any suggestions???

By: cgates

cgates — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 03:50:28 +0000

Download server appears to be offline, can I get the .deb file emailed to me??? Thanks.

By: kdas

kdas — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:27:37 +0000

I have exactly the same problem. Using Karmic x64,gestikk seems to be stored in /usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages I guess that could be sort of related to the problem… no idea though

By: Rohit

Rohit — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 07:44:34 +0000

Installed without error but having runtime error as follows..

rohit@rohit-desktop:~$ gestikk
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/bin/gestikk”, line 30, in
import gestikk.tools as gtools
ImportError: No module named gestikk.tools

How do I correct it ??

By: Armen

Armen — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 01:27:42 +0000

Lefty, KDE has mouse gestures built in. You can configure them in the KDE control center under “input actions”.

By: Dauerbaustelle (gestikk-developer)

Dauerbaustelle (gestikk-developer) — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:40:26 +0000

@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!

By: Alfonso FR

Alfonso FR — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 06:40:51 +0000

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…)

By: lefty.crupps

lefty.crupps — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 15:20:48 +0000

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…