Margin v0.4.0

Margin

Your touchpad has edges. Put them to work.

Slide along an edge for volume, brightness, seeking or Alt+Tab. Press a corner to run anything. You choose what each one does, and the middle stays a normal touchpad. Free and open source, for Windows and Linux.

Download Read the docs GitHub
PS>irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/arxhr007/margin/main/scripts/install.ps1 | iex

Windows 10/11 with a precision touchpad · margin.exe (0.6 MB) · Linux

The Margin settings window: a map of the touchpad with every edge and corner assigned

What it does

The strip around your touchpad, turned into controls you pick.

🔊

Slide an edge

Volume, screen brightness, seeking a video, zoom, switching windows or virtual desktops, skipping tracks, or your own shortcut.

🎯

Press a corner

One, two or three presses each run a different action: mute, screenshot, lock, open an app or website, press a shortcut, run a command.

🗺️

You choose

Click an edge or corner on the touchpad map and pick what it does. The map always shows the real zones.

🖐️

Stays out of the way

Taps, palms, scrolling and multi-finger gestures pass through. The middle of the touchpad stays a normal touchpad.

🪶

Tiny and native

One program of about 0.6 MB, nothing else to install. Windows 10/11 and Linux, Wayland or X11.

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Private

No network access, no telemetry, no account. It reads the touchpad and saves your settings, nothing more.

Quick start

Install, then left-click the tray icon (Windows) or run margin settings (Linux).

powershell
# Windows 10 / 11, in PowerShell
irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/arxhr007/margin/main/scripts/install.ps1 | iex
bash
# Linux (x86_64, systemd)
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/arxhr007/margin/main/scripts/install.sh | sh

Direct downloads and checksums →  ·  Installer options →

Documentation

From the first slide to editing settings.json by hand.

Download

Windows and Linux downloads, checksums and code signing.

Install

One-line installers, options, building from source, uninstalling.

Using Margin

Edges, corners, the two ways to start a slide, and the defaults.

Custom keys

Send your own shortcuts from an edge, with presets.

Settings file

settings.json by hand: every field and value.

Linux

The service, permissions and what differs from Windows.

Troubleshooting

When a slide or press does nothing, and other fixes.

How it works

Raw Input, evdev, the gesture engine, building and testing.

Code signing policy

How Windows releases are built and signed.

Privacy policy

Margin collects nothing; what it stores on your computer.