This article explains how to set a custom gesture with the Mac UPDD driver

Please see the information below regarding customer gestures not working properly with the Mac UPDD driver. 

This is typically due to a permissions issue between the OS and the UPDD driver. The OS uses its generic driver instead of the UPDD driver for the touchscreen.

Running UPDD command line utility (upddutils) and various other commands (e.g upddprocesses) require that the current user has permission to access folder /usr/local/bin.

A few users reported that the command was not found i.e. in a terminal it would be seen as 'upddutils: command not found'

It was discovered that the folder was owned by a non-existent user account and could not be accessed by regular user accounts.

This issue was fixed by executing the following commands in Terminal:

sudo chmod 755 /usr/local/
sudo chmod -R 755 /usr/local/bin/

It should ask for your admin password after the first command.