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<credit type="author">
<name>Michael Hill</name>
<email>mdhillca@gmail.com</email>
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<credit type="author">
<name>Shaun McCance</name>
<email>shaunm@gnome.org</email>
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<desc>Manipulate your desktop using gestures on your touchpad or touchscreen.</desc>
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<title>Use gestures on touchpads and touchscreens</title>
<p>Multitouch gestures can be used on touchpads and touchscreens for system navigation,
as well as in applications.</p>
<p>A number of applications make use of gestures. In
<app>Document Viewer</app>, documents can be zoomed and swiped with gestures,
and <app>Image Viewer</app> allows you to zoom, rotate and pan.</p>
<section id="system">
<title>System-wide gestures</title>
<table rules="rows" frame="bottom">
<tr>
<td><p><media type="image" src="figures/touch-overview.svg" width="128" its:translate="no"/></p></td>
<td><p><em>Open the Activities Overview and Applications View</em></p>
<p>Place three fingers on the touchpad or touchscreen and gesture upwards to open the Activities Overview.</p>
<p>To open the Applications View, place three fingers and gesture upwards again.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><media type="image" src="figures/touch-workspaces.svg" width="128" its:translate="no"/></p></td>
<td><p><em>Switch Workspace</em></p>
<p>Place three fingers on the touchpad or touchscreen and gesture left or right.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><media type="image" src="figures/touch-unfullscreen.svg" width="128" its:translate="no"/></p></td>
<td><p><em>Exit from fullscreen</em></p>
<p>On a touchscreen, drag down from the top edge to exit from the fullscreen mode of any window.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><media type="image" src="figures/touch-osk.svg" width="128" its:translate="no"/></p></td>
<td><p><em>Bring up the on-screen keyboard</em></p>
<p>On a touchscreen, drag up from the bottom edge to bring up the
<link xref="keyboard-osk">on-screen keyboard</link>, if the on-screen keyboard is enabled.</p></td>
</tr>
</table>
</section>
<section id="apps">
<title>Application gestures</title>
<table rules="rows" frame="bottom">
<tr>
<td><p><media type="image" src="figures/touch-tap.svg" width="128" its:translate="no"/></p></td>
<td><p><em>Open an item, launch an application, play a song</em></p>
<p>Tap on an item.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><media type="image" src="figures/touch-hold.svg" width="128" its:translate="no"/></p></td>
<td><p><em>Select an item and list actions that can be performed</em></p>
<p>Press and hold for a second or two.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><media type="image" src="figures/touch-scroll.svg" width="128" its:translate="no"/></p></td>
<td><p><em>Scroll the area on the screen</em></p>
<p>Drag: slide a finger touching the surface.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><media type="image" src="figures/touch-pinch-to-zoom.svg" width="128" its:translate="no"/></p></td>
<td><p><em>Change the zoom level of a view (<app>Maps</app>,
<app>Photos</app>)</em></p>
<p>Two-finger pinch or stretch: Touch the surface with two fingers while bringing them
closer or further apart.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><media type="image" src="figures/touch-rotate.svg" width="128" its:translate="no"/></p></td>
<td><p><em>Rotate a photo</em></p>
<p>Two-finger rotate: Touch the surface with two fingers and rotate.</p></td>
</tr>
</table>
</section>
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