Trackpad gestures

[ghost]

It'd be really nice to see native gestures in Ghostty, something I feel lacking in most terminals, including the default Terminal.app. One out of many examples, pinching inwards should show all tabs - try this in Safari. I'm a GUI person, and I use the trackpad on my MacBook, so gestures is like a god sent for me - I use Swish which is a native gesture based window manager for macOS and it works flawlessly, but when the applications i use don't have gestures it feels like the flow of my productivity is cut in half.

[mitchellh]

As a very focused thing: pinching to see tab overview makes a ton of sense to me.

Are there other gestures that make sense to add? (That are idiomatic)

[ghost]

Gestures for navigating tabs comes to mind, think a two finger swipe (left and right) to navigate back and forth would be appropriate - in safari this would navigate back and forth the page history.

[dgnorton]

Another vote for 2 finger swipe to scroll left/right through panes.

[ghost]

I've never used iTerm but given it's also a native app it'd be interesting to hear what for, how and if they do gestures. so if anyone has experience with iterm and would like to share, please do! :)

[zachary822]

iTerm does three finger swipe left and right to go to prev and next tab. Three finger swipe up and down to cycle between windows.

I use the left/right three finger swipe quite often.

[jasondinh]

I'm currently using BetterTouchTool to map the gestures to their respective shortcuts, but it would be nice to get this supported without 3rd party tools.

[pluiedev]

From a technical perspective this would require a bit of extra code for GTK, since the builtin gesture event controllers support at most two-finger gestures (which is unfortunately due to legacy X11 support — X11 doesn't comprehend gestures involving more than two touch points). We would then therefore need to write our own event controller for more complex gestures.

[linardsblk]

Honestly just the two finger swipes for switching tabs would already be amazing. This is integrated into my workflow so much that it is the only nitpick stopping me from fully switching over.

[pluiedev]

Actually looking at GTK APIs a bit more, the only gestures that come out of the box are two-finger rotate, two-finger zoom and one-finger touches... That's certainly not going to be enough — we would most likely need to write our own gesture controller then