Cant use pinch-to-zoom in like window on Ubuntu 22.04

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I’ve just installed Brave on Ubuntu 22.04 by following this instruction Installing Brave on Linux

Brave has a two-finger swipe to zoom only on Windows but not on Linux. So I did as follows (Two-Finger Swipe Gestures and Pinch-to-Zoom Touchpad Functionality Not Working on Ubuntu 22.04)

sudo gedit /usr/share/applications/brave-browser.desktop

Then, in the text editor, I’ve put flag in the Exec parameter.

#Exec=/usr/bin/brave-browser-stable %U
Exec=/usr/bin/brave-browser-stable --enable-features=TouchpadOverscrollHistoryNavigation --disable-experiments

But it doesn’t work. Please help me, I love brave but this feature is very important to we. Any help is appreciated.

New update: It turns out, the job couldn’t be easier. Follow these steps to get pinch to pinch-to-zoom gesture in Brave on Linux:

  1. In Brave, go to brave://flags/
  2. Find the “Preferred Ozone platform” section
  3. Select “Wayland”
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same issue here, im using linux mint xia, but if change from X11 to wayland i can use the pinch to zoom gesture, but in X11 i can’t, its really weird, cuz i can use that gesture in other programs like gimp and calc, i try also that solution and didn’t work for me, hopefully someone can help us, your distro has wayland right?

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It’s kinda weird like u said, bro. Firefox can do that gesture but not Brave.

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