How to enable multi touch gestures

Question

I'm trying to set up three finger swipes to cycle between workspaces with no success. I installed touchegg and got some config files but couldn't get it working.

After I run touchegg I get this message and then nothing happens.

Try to make a multitouch gesture. If everything goes well the information about the gesture must appear 
[+] Avaliable gesture: 
     Name ->  Flick 
[+] Avaliable gesture: 
     Name ->  Drag 
[+] Avaliable gesture: 
     Name ->  Pinch 
[+] Avaliable gesture: 
     Name ->  Rotate 
[+] Avaliable gesture: 
     Name ->  Tap 
[+] Avaliable gesture: 
     Name ->  Touch 

I've changed the config file to set up gestures I know work in my hardware (such as two finger scroll) but again, nothing happens.

Any help would be much appreciated!

Answer 1

Touchegg does not work in Loki. However, I also posted a question that was not voted on or answered.. One needs to use Libinput gestures.. you can follow the link below and if you do everything right you can get workspaces to work out of the box. anything else is my question.. how?

Multi-Touch Gestures for eOS config file for Libinput OS

Answer 2

Credits : Bulletmark and Neal Fennimore

Follow Neil Fennomore's solution given on his page.

However, installing libinput-gesture, install xdotools and wmctrl

apt install xdotools wmctrl

[Bulletmark's page] says : "The default gestures are in /etc/libinput-gestures.conf. If you want to create your own custom gestures then copy that file to ~/.config/libinput-gestures.conf and edit it." So I had to additionally execute (and I use 'Gedit') :

cp /etc/libinput-gestures.conf ~/.config/

and

gedit ~/.config/libinput-gestures.conf.

and then append required lines for my gestures to the file. For eg. :

gesture swipe up 3 xdotool key super+Up

More gesture commands could be found on Neal's page.