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Turn the edges and corners of your touchpad into volume, brightness, seek, Alt+Tab and custom shortcut controls. A tiny native Rust app for Windows and Linux, no runtime, no telemetry.
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GITHUB · launched Nov 7, 2026 · 24 upvotes (top 84%) · 0 views
Niche: desktop and display utilities · 171 launches, 6 in the last 7 days ▼ -75% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- brightness-control
- evdev
- gestures
- linux
- precision-touchpad
- productivity
- +6 more
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Could you build this?
Partial The settings UI and config logic are vibe-codeable, but low-level touchpad input handling (Windows Raw Input and Linux evdev across Wayland and X11) and reliable gesture disambiguation need systems-level expertise.
What it would actually take: A real version would be a small native app, likely in Rust or C++, that reads raw touchpad events via Windows Raw Input and Linux evdev, runs a gesture engine that separates edge slides, corner taps and holds from normal pointer movement, and injects media, brightness and shortcut actions through OS APIs. The hard part is getting palm rejection and per-touchpad quirks right and making it work on Wayland, which restricts input injection. Someone with OS input-stack experience and access to a range of touchpad hardware for testing would be needed.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 338 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #315 of 339 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 370 days after the earliest competitor.
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