Do you have a pretty delicious precision touchpad and you want it to shine in KDE? Here is how.
The first thing we are going to do is install libinput-gestures with
sudo apt-get install xdotool wmctrl libinput-tools -y
now clone the project from github
git clone https://github.com/bulletmark/libinput-gestures.git && cd gestures
sudo make install
start the deamon with
libinput-gestures-setup autostart
add your current user to the input group to read the touchpad input
sudo gpasswd -a $USER input
log out and login againt to compleate the install
NOTE: on arch there is a AUR package that will do the installation all for you
Now we want to install the Gestures app in order to configure all with a simple GUI right?
git clone https://gitlab.com/cunidev/gestures && cd gestures
sudo python3 setup.py install
Open the app, click on the + and here we have some choices. Basically we could set some xdotool commands to emulate keyboard shortcuts, but sometimes they could cause troubles, for example if an app is locking a key or if you are in an input filed. To get around this issue, we can submit commands to kwin directly. In a terminal type:
qdbus org.kde.kglobalaccel /component/kwin org.kde.kglobalaccel.Component.shortcutNames
those are all the commands available; to select Window Close for example, enter the following
qdbus org.kde.kglobalaccel /component/kwin org.kde.kglobalaccel.Component.invokeShortcut “Window Close”
that is it. thanks to this reddit user for the commands
