Tom, thanks a lot for this little app! I have been looking for long to find a proper replacement for StrokeIt. Investigated wavy, xstroke, chickenscratch and gestikk. The latter one seemed to be most suitable and it is nice but suffers from the problems you mentioned as it is not meant to be for tablet pen input but for regular mouse usage.
I had 3 minor issue I ran into using easystroke. First one is that I don't see easystroke as a menu entry (I am using Xubuntu on a ThinkPad x61t). So I cannot start it from the GUI but only from a terminal.
Secondly, I could not store gestures as the gesture file belongs to root, so I had to change file permissions.
Thirdly, when I right click the easystroke taskbar icon, the context menu shows up at a little weird offset position.
Of course these issues are minor and easystroke works great here. I have defined a couple of gestures including:
* minimize and close window
* cut, copy, paste
* delete, backspace, space, return
* forward, backward, new tab, close tab for Firefox
* launchers for cellwriter and some other tools
works great so far, accurate and lag free, and makes a whole different tablet experience
Now I am wondering whether it is possible to define a full blown xstroke/graffiti-like alphabet to input text? Anybody did that?
Other questions include:
* is it possible to share the gesture definition with other users? Or have a default gestures file included. This might be very helpful for all first-time users of gesture software and easystroke.
* is it possible to issue a right-click, Ctrl-Click, Shift click, Alt-click to the gesture starting position? This would be great (never succeeded in doing this with StrokeIt).
best regards,
Peter
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