I’m new to linux, running last version of ubuntu MATE. Tried to get fusuma to have a better experience with my touchpad (I’m using an hp notebook). I followed the whole guide for ubuntu users on the Github page, created the config.yml using these two commands:

mkdir -p ~/.config/fusuma

nano ~/.config/fusuma/config.yml

Then I used the config.yml file they provided and got the result you see in this image when I launched sudo fusuma, i.e the error :

config file: /root/.config/fusuma/config.yml is NOT FOUND

Then I run just “fusuma” without sudo and the error disappeared, but fusuma does literally nothing. Can someone please help me with this?

This is the first time I installed a Linux distro (I heard it lowers the possibility of getting a blue screen which happened to me lately result of my SSD dying). So I really don’t understand permissions here (how I run things as administrator like in windows) and the difference between root and home clearly, I don’t even know how to uninstall fusuma to try again now!

  • d3Xt3r@lemmy.nzM
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    1 year ago

    I’m not familiar with this program, but did you follow the instructions to grant permissions? If you do that, you should be able to run it without using sudo, and it should read the config file from your home folder.

    • zaknenou@lemmy.mlOP
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      1 year ago

      I think I forgot one command, the second one. If so, should I just go again through the whole process or I have to uninstall the changes before that (I don’t know how to do this)

      • d3Xt3r@lemmy.nzM
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        1 year ago

        You shouldn’t have to unistall anything, just reboot and try running the program normally (without sudo).

        • zaknenou@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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          1 year ago

          I did the installation multiple times yesterday and shutdown my laptop, now I ran fusuma and I can’t even pinch zoom on a PDF

          • d3Xt3r@lemmy.nzM
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            1 year ago

            Did you try this command yet?

            gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad send-events enabled

            • zaknenou@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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              1 year ago

              I just now opened the terminal and ran this, nothing happened. The I ran “fusuma” and tried pinch zoom and 3 fingers gestures also nothing happened.

              • d3Xt3r@lemmy.nzM
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                1 year ago

                Hmm, in that case I’ve got nothing more sorry, since I don’t use this program myself, nor MATE. You could try asking on fusuma’s github page, or alternatively, I would recommend using Touchégg instead, which is a basically the de-facto program for multi-touch gestures, for people using a non-standard desktop.

                • zaknenou@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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                  1 year ago

                  Okay, I tried it (along with touché the gui, and it’s worst here, it breaks the whole system ability to make use of the touchpad. I guess problem with the gnome version of MATE. Thanks for your help bro