Touchpad gestures not working

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My touchpad is an Alps I2C:

cat /proc/bus/input/devices:
I: Bus=0018 Vendor=044e Product=121e Version=0100
N: Name="AUI1667:00 044E:121E Mouse"
P: Phys=i2c-AUI1667:00
S: Sysfs=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:15.0/i2c_designware.0/i2c-1/i2c-AUI1667:00/0018:044E:121E.0001/input/input3
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=mouse0 event3 
B: PROP=0
B: EV=17
B: KEY=70000 0 0 0 0
B: REL=1943
B: MSC=10

And touchpad gestures will not work, and I do not know how to solve it. I tried changing some mouse-related settings in both Settings and in Gnome Tweaks.

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Are you using Zorin 15.3 - Lite or Core- or Zorin 16 Beta?

Is this a recent installation and touchpad gestures are new- or an existing installation in which touchegg has stopped working properly?

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Oh! Sorry, I forgot to clarify that! It is a brand new installation of ZorinOS 16 (Core, obviously).

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Your touchpad is being detected as a mouse, instead of a touchpad.

Sadly the only repair I know of is to Update the Kernel or install a backport kernel.
Have you done

sudo apt full-upgrade

since you installed?

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Update the Kernel or install a backport kernel

How would that be? I have Linux v5.8.0-50-generic. But I know nothing about backport kernels.

Have you done sudo apt full-upgrade since you installed?

Yes sir.

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I am a bit baffled too... the 5.8 kernel should be good.
You might try

sudo apt install --reinstall touchegg

just in case...

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That didn't work.

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Could it be because it is both Alps and I2C? I never tried getting gestures in Linux, but in Windows 10 I don't have all the gestures and (trackpad-related) animations other people get. Also, I installed macOS in this laptop and in there, there is no way to get Alps I2C touchpads to work (anyway, It's a hackintosh so it doesn't make much sense to compare, but maybe that information is useful).
The point is: maybe this trackpad is not very gesture-friendly (however Windows got it to work pretty well, so it would be really nice if there's a way to make it work here in ZorinOS).

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can you login with wayland? try that

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I installed i2c-tools (didn't work), but I can't modify that in my BIOS.
This laptop is a Lenovo IdeaPad 330-15IKB 81DE.

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Yes, I can, but that seems not to be enough to solve this issue.

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...And will break everything else...:stuck_out_tongue:

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to make gestures work outside wayland you need to install some other libraries/extension.
try GitHub - JoseExposito/touchegg: Linux multi-touch gesture recognizer and GitHub - JoseExposito/touche: The desktop application to configure Touchégg for the gui

or

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I solved a version of this here.

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