Brave Browser Wayland Two (2) Finger Touchpad Gesture Swipe History Back And Forth Enabling

brave_two_finger_touchpad.sh

# 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.

Thank you for this! Been searching online to enable this everywhere and this config worked. I've also made it in to ansible task for repeatability.

- name: Replace line in brave-browser.desktop file to enable 2 fingers swipe back and forth gesture. https://gist.github.com/detherminal/1845c794ee3f3cdcc4e7eb713e9ee6fd
      lineinfile:
        path: /usr/share/applications/brave-browser.desktop
        regexp: '^Exec=/usr/bin/brave-browser-stable %U$'
        line: 'Exec=/usr/bin/brave-browser-stable %U --ozone-platform=wayland --enable-features=TouchpadOverscrollHistoryNavigation'
      become: true

source - https://github.com/brootware/dotfiles/blob/e26ea30ba49977ec7540110980f6194c49cd786f/dotbootstrap/rpm_linux_setup.yml#L114

thank you this worked for me! but a little disclaimer, you have to change "brave-browser-stable" to your default exec command. For example mine was just Exec = brave %U so you replace "brave-browser-stable" with just "brave". you also have to replace every instance of Exec with it's own modified one.

it did not work on ubuntu (.deb) package

You rock, I was trying to figure out why my Brave browser didnt support something so simple coming from a Firefox user. This worked perfectly on NixOS and I just had to edit my .desktop file. Cheers

i don't know what just happend but i tried it now an it worked thanks man 🥳

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