Map actions in touch screen and touchpad to keyboard shortcuts or other input devices.
This project is aim to providing a common resolusion for translate an "unclear" touch action on PC to exsited one our computer can recognize, often a global shortcut.
There are some similar projects, such as libinput-gesetures and touchegg, having a good performance about improving user interaction of touching.
However, the exsited projects are almost platform related, they might work well on X11, but not well on Wayland. So, I reference their idea and reimplement a new project, which we are talking about.
The main idea of the project is very simple. First, get the touch event and recognize them. Next, get the crosponding action which exsited in our computer. Last, execute the action for responding the touch event.
As I said, this project is aim to providing a common resolution, that means no what X11 or Wayland will get the same interaction. However, due to the tech limited, I can't not do so much at the side of event response. For now it only support the basic keyborad(mostly) and mouse event's mapping.
I provide a graphics interface for configure the shortcut of different touch gestures. However it must have permission for modification, because the project must run in system wide. Note that the shortcut must be supported in existed system, make sure you have learn about the shortcuts in your computer, or learn about how to config them to fit into the translator. For example, map four finger swipe gesture to 'Alt+Tab' or 'Shift+Alt+Tab' for switching window.
- libinput-dev
- libudev-dev
- qtbase5-dev
- libkf5xmlgui-dev
- mkdir build && cd build
- qmake .. && sudo make install
- run project with sudo, or use
systemctl start libinput-touch-translator.service
- sudo /usr/bin/ukui-touch-translator-config for find usage and config them
- have a try on touchscreen and touchpad
On Ubuntu is add PPA (focal only).
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:larue/libinput-touch-translator
sudo apt-get update
apt source libinput-touch-translator && sudo apt build-dep libinput-touch-translator
or
sudo apt install libinput-touch-translator
