KWin¶

Important

It is necessary to restart KWin after updating the plugin, otherwise the newer version will not be loaded and the old one will be used instead.

The minimum Plasma version is 6.3, for older versions use InputActions v0.8.0. If a new feature requires additional changes to work on older versions, it will likely be made available only on the latest one.

Packages¶

Note

Unofficial packages may not be up to date.

Arch Linux (AUR)*

Important

Choose cleanBuild when reinstalling the package.

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/inputactions-kwin

yay -S inputactions-kwin

NixOS (flakes)

flake.nix¶

{
  inputs = {
    inputactions-ctl = {
      url = "git+https://github.com/InputActions/ctl?submodules=1";
      inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs";
    };
    inputactions-kwin = {
      url = "git+https://github.com/InputActions/kwin?submodules=1";
      inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs";
    };
  };
}

configuration.nix¶

{ inputs, pkgs, ... }:

{
  environment.systemPackages = [
    inputs.inputactions-ctl.packages.${pkgs.system}.default
    inputs.inputactions-kwin.packages.${pkgs.system}.default
  ];
}

Optionally, add the official binary cache if compilation times are an issue:

configuration.nix¶

{
  nix.settings = {
    extra-substituters = ["https://inputactions.cachix.org"];
    extra-trusted-public-keys = ["inputactions.cachix.org-1:yBGhAqTOv0V08lrOTBwMAkU7V/9a0i2UPvsvCu39CjE="];
  };
}

* Unofficial package, use at your own risk.

Manual¶

Dependencies¶

Arch Linux

sudo pacman -S --needed base-devel git extra-cmake-modules qt6-tools kwin yaml-cpp libevdev cli11

Debian-based (KDE Neon, Kubuntu, Ubuntu)

sudo apt install git cmake g++ extra-cmake-modules qt6-tools-dev kwin-wayland kwin-dev libkf6configwidgets-dev gettext libkf6kcmutils-dev libyaml-cpp-dev libxkbcommon-dev pkg-config libevdev-dev libdrm-dev libcli11-dev

Fedora

sudo dnf install git cmake extra-cmake-modules gcc-g++ qt6-qtbase-devel kwin-devel kf6-ki18n-devel kf6-kguiaddons-devel kf6-kcmutils-devel kf6-kconfigwidgets-devel qt6-qtbase kf6-kguiaddons kf6-ki18n wayland-devel yaml-cpp yaml-cpp-devel libepoxy-devel libevdev libevdev-devel libdrm-devel cli11-devel

openSUSE

sudo zypper in git cmake-full gcc-c++ kf6-extra-cmake-modules kf6-kguiaddons-devel kf6-kconfigwidgets-devel kf6-ki18n-devel kf6-kcmutils-devel "cmake(KF6I18n)" "cmake(KF6KCMUtils)" "cmake(KF6WindowSystem)" "cmake(Qt6Core)" "cmake(Qt6DBus)" "cmake(Qt6Quick)" "cmake(Qt6Widgets)" libepoxy-devel kwin6-devel yaml-cpp-devel libxkbcommon-devel libevdev-devel cli11-devel

Installation¶

curl -o inputactions-installer.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/taj-ny/InputActions/refs/heads/main/install.sh
chmod +x inputactions-installer.sh
./inputactions-installer.sh --ctl --kwin --latest

Installation (Fedora immutable)¶

Build the plugin in a container. The image’s KWin version must be the same as the one on your real system.

# enter container
sudo dnf install git cmake extra-cmake-modules gcc-g++ qt6-qtbase-devel kwin-devel kf6-ki18n-devel kf6-kguiaddons-devel kf6-kcmutils-devel kf6-kconfigwidgets-devel qt6-qtbase kf6-kguiaddons kf6-ki18n wayland-devel yaml-cpp yaml-cpp-devel libepoxy-devel libevdev libevdev-devel libdrm-devel cli11-devel rpmbuild
curl -o inputactions-installer.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/taj-ny/InputActions/refs/heads/main/install.sh
chmod +x inputactions-installer.sh
./inputactions-installer.sh --ctl --kwin -p RPM --latest
exit # exit container

installer_dir="${XDG_DATA_HOME:-$HOME/.local/share}/inputactions-installer"
sudo rpm-ostree install "$installer_dir/inputactions-ctl.rpm" "$installer_dir/inputactions-kwin.rpm"

After installation¶

To enable the plugin, run

qdbus6 org.kde.KWin /Effects org.kde.kwin.Effects.loadEffect kwin_gestures

or open the Desktop Effects page in System Settings and enable InputActions in the Tools category.

If the plugin ever causes the compositor to crash repeatedly, making it impossible to disable it, remove kwin_gesturesEnabled=true from ~/.config/kwinrc.

Additional setup (optional)¶

To enable extra touchpad features, create a file at /etc/udev/rules.d/71-touchpad.rules with the following content:

ENV{ID_INPUT_TOUCHPAD}=="1", TAG+="uaccess"

This will give all programs read and write access to all touchpads.