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Summary

Request for a movement of three fingers touch the touchpad to cause the movement of the pointer Request for a mouse left button down + up while moving the pointer with three fingers

Feature details

1. rest three fingers at the touchpad
2. move the three fingers at the same time for the same direction
3. the pointer follows the the movement made by the three fingers
4. move the pointer to the window title bar
5. touch the touchpad with three fingers
6. move the three fingers to the right
7. the window moves to the right, as if the mouse left button were pressed
8. remove two fingers from the touchpad
9. the window stops moving as if the mouse left button stoped being pressed
10. keep moving the remaining finger on the touchpad
11. the pointer keeps moving following the remaining finger

Implementation in Other Systems

This was the default behaviour in Apple trackpads in 2012 macbooks. Recently this behaviour for three fingers touch/movement is an options in the trackpad preferences.