On Sat, 2023-02-18 at 14:37 +0100, Juraj Oravec wrote: > On sobota 18. februára 2023 13:09:22 CET Tobias Leupold wrote: > > Hi all! > > > > My little son starts to use a computer for school, so I currently > > share my notebook with him. He's left-handed (and I'm right-handed), > > so I searched for a convenient way to switch the mouse settings from > > right-handed to left-handed and vice versa, like with a small systray > > icon and just one click to do. > > > > The only thing I found was "mouseswap-kf5" ( > > https://www.pling.com/p/998954/ ) which seems to do this exact thing. > > But it seems to be outdated and unmaintained -- I could not build it. > > > > I then looked into the sources and thought it could not be that hard > > to re- write or update the thing, but after messing a bit with it, I > > have to admit that I have no idea how to do it properly ;-) I could > > not even connect to some DBUS signal telling me that any > > systemsettings setting has been changed (I never worked with this > > before) ... > > > > So: Is there anything comparable we have in "official" KDE? And if > > not, can anybody point me to docs about how to do it, so that I can > > try to implement this myself? > > > > This would imo be a nice addition to the default mouse system > > settings, like "show a systray icon to switch between left- and > > right-handed" or such. I think this would be a nice extra for a lot > > of people sharing their computer with others. > > > > Thanks for all help and all hints :-) > > > > Cheers, Tobias > > Hello Tobias, > > Have you considered using libinput and undex Xorg xinput tool and some > scripts around (create script and bind to keyboard shortcut, create some > icon...)? > > Example from my machine (mouse can have multiple entries here): > $ xinput list > ⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)] > ⎜ ↳ Razer Razer Basilisk V3 id=17 [slave pointer (2)] > > > $ xinput --list-props 17 > Device 'Razer Razer Basilisk V3': > ..... > libinput Left Handed Enabled (294): 0 > libinput Left Handed Enabled Default (295): 0 > ... > > > Probably: > $ xinput --set-prop 17 "libinput Left Handed Enabled" 1
If you make use of X11 and `xinput`, please don't use numeric IDs, they will change on reboot. Instead use the actual string, so in the example above that would be: xinput --set-prop "Razer Razer Basilisk V3" "libinput Left Handed Enabled" 1