Touchpad Swipe gestures

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Hi,

I’ve been enjoying the brave experience so far but one small issue. Touchpad swipe gestures don’t natively work and I have to edit /usr/share/applications/brave-browser.desktop and go to the exec line and make it
Exec=/usr/bin/brave-browser-stable --enable-features=TouchpadOverscrollHistoryNavigation,UseOzonePlatform --ozone-platform=wayland
for the touchpad back and forward swipe gestures to work.
Only problem is I have to do it regularly (I assume whenever brave updates). Could you make it stay supported either by leaving the line by default or fixing the issue. Thanks in advance!

Regards.

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I found this extension which seems to be working nicely:

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Hello!
To make touchpad swipe gestures work in Brave without needing to reapply changes after updates, copy the desktop entry to your local applications folder and edit it. Run:

sudo cp /usr/share/applications/brave-browser.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/
nano ~/.local/share/applications/brave-browser.desktop

Then, modify the Exec line to include your desired flags. This custom entry won’t be affected by updates.