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Brave Browser Wayland Two (2) Finger Touchpad Gesture Swipe History Back And Forth Enabling
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| # To add two-finger gesture to back and forth swiping, follow this steps with shell | |
| # 1 - Open .desktop file with nano | |
| sudo nano /usr/share/applications/brave-browser.desktop | |
| # 2 - Move to a little bottom, edit the place where it is `Exec=` to match this | |
| Exec=/usr/bin/brave-browser-stable %U --ozone-platform=wayland --enable-features=TouchpadOverscrollHistoryNavigation | |
| # Use `Ctrl-O` to write and `Ctrl-X` to exit | |
| # Now restart the brave browser and you will be able to swipe back and forth with two-finger touchpad gestures. |
I have also found another solution for Arch Linux distros, or if you installed via FlatPak:
Arch Linux (AUR): The brave-bin or brave packages from the AUR ( yay -S brave-bin ) include a launcher script specifically designed to read ~/.config/brave-flags.conf .
Flatpak: The official Flatpak version (available on Flathub) is hardcoded to look for this file at ~/.var/app/com.brave.Browser/config/brave-flags.conf .
so if you nano/vim brave-flags.conf file (from the locations above) you can just add:
--ozone-platform=wayland
--enable-features=TouchpadOverscrollHistoryNavigation
and it works beautifully!
this works on brave-origin as well
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i don't know what just happend but i tried it now an it worked thanks man 🥳