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I run arch on a macbook, still dual-booting into macos from time to time.

The hardest thing I've hade to re-train muscle memory wise is the "swipe right to go back in the browser"-feature from macos.

In order to get that functionality in linux as well I've installed libinput-gestures and configured ~/.config/libinput-gestures.conf with:

gesture swipe left 3 xdotool key alt+Right gesture swipe right 3 xdotool key alt+Left

While that seem to work I would prefer to be able to change the 3 to a 2. But from my experience that does not seem to work.

Why is 2-finger swipe a no-go? Is there a work-around? I'm using gnome3 under wayland.

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I apparently can't even get the 3 finger swipe to work on Ubuntu 16.10 with Unity on Mir, but I have a hunch at why this isn't working for you.

By default, touchpad drivers enable the "Horizontal scrolling" feature -- either Edge or Two-Finger. Since Mac touchpads don't have the same Edge detection as some PC touchpads, Two-Finger is probably enabled by default.

To disable Two-Finger horizontal scrolling*, open GNOME's Mouse settings panel and switch to the "Touchpad" tab. Then, uncheck "Enable horizontal scrolling" or "Enable two-finger horizontal scrolling" or so, and try the libinput-gestures config mentioned in the question again.

* This is undoubtedly configurable through gsettings / dconf but I can't find it.

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    I like your hunch, though disabling two finger scrolling and horizontal scrolling didn't help. In fact, adding 2-finger swipe configuration lines to ~/.config/libinput-gestures.conf stopped horizontal scrolling altogether, even though they were ineffective. Commented May 23, 2019 at 9:07

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