I can't get fusuma to work on my ubuntu MATE
I can't get fusuma to work on my ubuntu MATE
I'm new to linux, running last version of ubuntu MATE. Tried to get fusuma to have a better experience with my touchpad (I'm using an hp notebook). I followed the whole guide for ubuntu users on the Github page, created the config.yml using these two commands:
mkdir -p ~/.config/fusuma
nano ~/.config/fusuma/config.yml
Then I used the config.yml file they provided and got the result you see in this image when I launched sudo fusuma, i.e the error :
config file: /root/.config/fusuma/config.yml is NOT FOUND
Then I run just "fusuma" without sudo and the error disappeared, but fusuma does literally nothing. Can someone please help me with this?
This is the first time I installed a Linux distro (I heard it lowers the possibility of getting a blue screen which happened to me lately result of my SSD dying). So I really don't understand permissions here (how I run things as administrator like in windows) and the difference between root and home clearly, I don't even know how to uninstall fusuma to try again now!
In the GitHub it is written that you should only use fusuma.
About that error, in windows, you have two users say administrator and user. Both the users have their own user folder,they can't tamper with the others users folders right.
Similarly linux in default install has two users one the root and other the user. When you use sudo you are asking the root to open the file in its folder not in yours.
There's a bit to explain here. So the root user is basically the equivalent of Administrator. One big difference (there are many) is that when you run something as root using sudo, you are actually running as the root user. When you ran the first command to create the folder, you created it in your home directory using the ~ shorthand variable which points to your /home/ user folder. The second command, also references your home folder. However since your running as root, it's looking for the file in the root user's home directory or /root, not your home folder.
The config file needs to be in the home directory of the user running the command unless you can put the full path to the config file in the command, then you can put it wherever you want.
Okay! But shouldn't the problem be resolved when I ran "fusuma" without sudo then? It does nothing to the system
Okay first question is : is MATE absolutely necessary ?
If not, I would advise you to switch to a distro that uses GNOME or KDE. I'd go for Zorin OS which is really perfect for anyone beginning on Linux.
In any case, I have a solution that should work no matter the device. It requires you to have libinput and libinput-gestures installed (rather than fusuma which I found buggy and laggy)
You can find it here : https://lemmy.one/comment/2189433
I tried my best to make it beginner-friendly â even if it is not. Don't read the first paragraph which is KDE specific.
is MATE absolutely necessary
well I'm too tired to format again. I chose it cuz it is just lighweight ubuntu (knowing that ubuntu is pretty popular = I get more support) and I recently got an ssd dying from opening multiple firefox windows so being lightweight is important, also MATE has GNOME2.
I will try a bit more with fusuma cuz it looks optimal, if it doesn't work I'll try libinput. Thank you sir!
In any case, since you use SSD, don't forget to enable TRIM đ
I'm not familiar with this program, but did you follow the instructions to grant permissions? If you do that, you should be able to run it without using
sudo, and it should read the config file from your home folder.