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I could use some help with this. Using KDE Wayland and currently almost happy with the gestures that come out of the box (but I think I was able to change 4 finger left/right virtual desktop switch to 3 fingers, don't remember how I did it...).
One thing I am missing though is being able to map Meta + W (the virtual desktop "collection" screen) to 3 finger swipe up. Any idea how this could be accomplished?
If you use KDE with wayland, then :
To be able to use four fingers swipe up, you need to disable present windows first. Go to settings > workspace behaviour > desktop effects and unclick
desktop grid
andpresent windows
(in the hope that you have no use for them)Then you need to install evemu and libinput-gestures (if you're on Arch, it's in the pacman repo and the AUR respectively)
Once you have it installed, run in your terminal
evemu-record
. It will list all of your devices. Shut down the program with Ctrl + C and look at the event for your keyboard. Once this is done note it down.Create a new file
nano sendkey.sh
Copy the content of this code in the new file but replace
EVDEVICE=/dev/input/event4
with your keyboard.Ctrl +O then CTRL + X to save then quit nano. Once it is done run this command :
chmod +x sendkey.sh
then open the gestures app and start mapping away. The interface is very intuitive. What you want to do is click on the little + at the top bar then select the motion you want to bind (in your caseswipe
+up
+4 fingers
) and in the command at the bottom you write/home/YOURUSERNAME/sendkey.sh LEFTMETA W
And there it is. You can map pretty any keybind to any event with this. Hope this helps.
This is so goddamn great that I won't even make the obligatory vim/nano joke, seriously, thank you a bunch!
Made a little modification to sendkey.sh as the /dev/input/event numbers change on boot:
EVENTNUMBER=$(ls -lah /dev/input/by-path/pci-0000:00:14.0-usbv2-0:5:1.0-event-kbd |awk '{sub("../", "", $11); print $11}')
EVDEVICE=/dev/input/$EVENTNUMBER