Two-Finger Swipe Gestures and Pinch-to-Zoom Touchpad Functionality Not Working on Ubuntu 22.04

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Hello,

I’m experiencing issues with touchpad gestures in Brave on Ubuntu 22.04. The two-finger swipe for back/forward navigation and pinch-to-zoom functionalities are not working, while they do in Firefox. Vertical scrolling is unaffected and works as intended. This issue persists across installations from both the Snap Store and the official Brave repository.

Any help is appreciated, as these missing gestures significantly reduce my efficiency and comfort with Brave. They’re essential to my browsing routine.

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I have the same problem.

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I followed your thread from the support ticket. You mentioned it was working in the end with --disable-experiments --ozone-platform=wayland ? What is the final command to have the touchpad gestures? I still can’t get the gesture to work.

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@real_username
sweet
I think its cause I had another brave window open. I can now from the terminal exec
brave-browser --enable-features=TouchpadOverscrollHistoryNavigation --disable-experiments and it works

So I’ve gone into vim /usr/share/applications/brave-browser.desktop and replaced the Exec with:

#Exec=/usr/bin/brave-browser-stable %U
Exec=/usr/bin/brave-browser-stable --enable-features=TouchpadOverscrollHistoryNavigation --disable-experiments

and I can launch with finger gesture! Thanks again @real_username

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I’ve been missing this feature on Brave Ubuntu since a long time.

Thank you so much!

Note:-
You have to replace

Exec=/usr/bin/brave-browser-stable %U

with

Exec=/usr/bin/brave-browser-stable --enable-features=TouchpadOverscrollHistoryNavigation --disable-experiments

using the TextEditor in all the occurences.

Go to Nautilus/Files : /usr/share/applications/brave-browser.destop and edit it.

Works like a charm!
I had moved to Firefox coz Brave lacked this feature. I’m back to Brave now!!

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This modification works on Brave. But still does not work on Brave-Beta and Microsoft Edge platforms

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