On Sat, 2023-02-18 at 16:22 +0300, Konstantin Kharlamov wrote: > On Sat, 2023-02-18 at 13:09 +0100, 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 But it seems to be outdated and 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. > > Did you consider adding a separate user account, and just logging out/in as > the > new user for him to use? So one user would be left-handed, the other one is > right-handed. > > P.S.: I tried running `dbus-monitor` and changing left-handness in > systemsettings5, but don't see any event being sent, so not sure how to > automate > such change. Perhaps someone else knows.
I wrote a mail, but closed it. Oh, well. Basically, just wanted to say that you can use `systemsettings5 kcm_mouse` to invoke the mouse menu.