Feature: Turn off/customize touch gestures in settings

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Hello everyone,

I am using gnome on a large infrared touchscreen monitor. It registers fingers even if they are not directly touching. Some people accidentally trigger multitouch gestures, which is very distracting during presentations. I noticed a few rare cases where I think a gesture in firefox (accidental long press) somehow crashed gnome and send me back to the login screen.

I would like to turn off the multitouch gestures or at least customize them, but it seems there is no way to do it in the settings. It requires installing the gnome extensions manager and then an extension like “Disable Gestures 2021“. I know this might be a no brainer for most personal users, but in my environment, I would like to install as little additional software as possible.
Is there maybe a CLI Switch to turn off the gestures?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

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Makes sense. The reason this is likely done with an extension now, is that GNOME Shell/Mutter probably don’t have an explicit setting for this. If they choose to do so, we could have a option for it exposed in GNOME Settings.

I see the extension code here gnome-disable-gestures/src/extension.js at main · VeryCrazyDog/gnome-disable-gestures · GitHub

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Hi, thanks for your reply. I looked at the code too but being unfamiliar with the gnome system, I cannot make sense of it or extract the settings I would need to change. To me it just looks like it registers some event listeners and then sets disableUnmaximizeGesture true or false. But I don’t really get it.
I also tried locating the libinput-gestures.conf but cannot find it on a Ubuntu 24.04 LTS system.