Michael Hill
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Shaun McCance
shaunm@gnome.org

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Manipulate your desktop using gestures on your touchpad or touchscreen.
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
pclouds@gmail.com 2011-2012.

# Use gestures on touchpads and touchscreens

Multitouch gestures can be used on touchpads and touchscreens for system navigation, as well as in applications.

A number of applications make use of gestures. In Document Viewer, documents can be zoomed and swiped with gestures, and Image Viewer allows you to zoom, rotate and pan.

# System-wide gestures

| Open the Activities Overview and Applications View Place three fingers on the touchpad or touchscreen and gesture upwards to open the Activities Overview. To open the Applications View, place three fingers and gesture upwards again.
| Switch Workspace Place three fingers on the touchpad or touchscreen and gesture left or right.
| Exit from fullscreen On a touchscreen, drag down from the top edge to exit from the fullscreen mode of any window.
| Bring up the on-screen keyboard On a touchscreen, drag up from the bottom edge to bring up the on-screen keyboard, if the on-screen keyboard is enabled.

# Application gestures

| Open an item, launch an application, play a song Tap on an item.
| Select an item and list actions that can be performed Press and hold for a second or two.
| Scroll the area on the screen Drag: slide a finger touching the surface.
| Change the zoom level of a view (Maps, Photos) Two-finger pinch or stretch: Touch the surface with two fingers while bringing them closer or further apart.
| Rotate a photo Two-finger rotate: Touch the surface with two fingers and rotate.