Trackpad gestures with mouse+keyboard

[depau]

I see PaperWM currently sort-of-allows to drag-and-drop the viewport by Super+mouse dragging the windows around. That sometimes glitches out or detaches the windows from the grid.

I love the touchpad gestures, I was wondering if it would be possible to hold down a modifier to perform the trackpad gestures, i.e. drag the viewport around when moving the mouse horizontally while holding down the modifier, and scroll the workspace stack when moving it vertically.

That would be especially useful with my Logitech MX Master 3 mouse, which has a gestures button:

By default it presses Super+Tab and keeps Super pressed as long as you keep pressing it (which works well on GNOME and on Windows without the Logitech app installed to switch windows). On Linux Solaar allows you to change its functionality and remap it to different keys.

For instance with this set of rules it allows me to drag windows around:

It would be great to be able to use it for PaperWM gestures.

[jtaala]

If anyone would like to work on implementing something like this I'd definitely accept a PR. I personally wouldn't use this feature though.

Just a note too, you can hover over the Gnome topbar and use the mouse scrollwheel to select left/right windows in the tiling viewport. Similarly, if you hover over the workspace name (top-left element) in PaperWM and scroll it will switch workspaces.

[crestofthebeast]

Was about to make an ask on this, would find it super helpful for gesture-style scrolling with a trackball.