Gestures to emulate missing back and menu buttons?

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Rather than using soft keys, a rather elegant and simple solution would be to use gestures to emulate the missing hardware buttons. You could have a program that runs in the background and attempts to detect a 3-finger swipe for "back" and perhaps a 4-finger tap for the "menu". This method would even work for full-screen apps. Does such an app exist?

Currently the software on the nook only recognizes two fingers, so those specific gestures are out for now.

However I saw someone mention that running your finger right to left across the status bar in 1.2 stock works as a "back" gesture

Originally Posted by ylixir

Currently the software on the nook only recognizes two fingers, so those specific gestures are out for now.

However I saw someone mention that running your finger right to left across the status bar in 1.2 stock works as a "back" gesture

Well, I'm talking about a general Android app running on a rooted NC and not the preloaded software. It would have to be a low-level program that would intercept all touch-screen activity and detect if any of the selected gestures were performed. If not, then pass the touchscreen activity to the currently running app.

Originally Posted by ylixir

However I saw someone mention that running your finger right to left across the status bar in 1.2 stock works as a "back" gesture

It was that way in the older versions too. Pretty cool trick.

After Murdock's mod, softkeys are pretty nice.

there is an app called zmooth on the market.

zmooth rocks! Been using it for a while. Just made is very slim, and I put it on the bottom of the screen. Works great!

Originally Posted by ylixir

Currently the software on the nook only recognizes two fingers, so those specific gestures are out for now.

However I saw someone mention that running your finger right to left across the status bar in 1.2 stock works as a "back" gesture

Funny thing is, that's in the manual

And it works for any non-full screen app on stock. I use Zeam on stock (never touch the home launcher), but the B&N status bar is always there anyway. As long as it's not full screen, you can use the right-to-left swipe to go back.