Give Input keycaps, a shortcut search, and the missing pointer basics

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ms2FbjQy31TVf3CEvQhGM8
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Gabriel Brown
2026-08-24 15:21:01 -04:00
parent b8f88a91f3
commit aba2d16ffa
25 changed files with 2346 additions and 191 deletions
@@ -10,6 +10,11 @@
// preference is stored and the compositor accepts an option for a device class
// with no members, so the user would be toggling settings that can never affect
// anything with nothing to say so.
//
// The gestures that were a card of their own now sit at the bottom of the
// touchpad card. They are touchpad settings -- a three-finger swipe has nowhere
// else to happen -- and a card holding two sliders was a heading standing in
// for a section.
import QtQuick
import qs.config
@@ -23,18 +28,100 @@ SettingsPage {
? "Pointer behavior for your mouse and touchpad."
: "Pointer behavior. Touchpad settings appear when a touchpad is attached."
// The name-filtered device lists InputDevices publishes. Defaulted here so
// the card stays a short honest list even before the service has read the
// compositor for the first time.
readonly property var realKeyboards: InputDevices.realKeyboards ?? []
readonly property var realMice: InputDevices.realMice ?? []
// Keyboards, then mice, then the touchpad if there is one. Built as one
// list so the card can draw dividers between rows without each Repeater
// having to know what follows it.
readonly property var devices: {
const out = [];
for (const keyboard of root.realKeyboards)
out.push({
glyph: "\u{F030C}", // md-keyboard
label: String(keyboard.pretty ?? keyboard.name ?? ""),
detail: InputDevices.mainKeyboardLayout === ""
? "Keyboard"
: "Keyboard · " + InputDevices.mainKeyboardLayout
});
for (const mouse of root.realMice)
out.push({
glyph: "\u{F037D}", // md-mouse
label: String(mouse.pretty ?? mouse.name ?? ""),
detail: "Mouse"
});
if (InputDevices.hasTouchpad)
out.push({
glyph: "\u{F0621}", // md-gesture-tap
label: "Touchpad",
detail: "Its own card above, because libinput keeps it separate"
});
return out;
}
readonly property var scrollMethodSpec: PreferenceSchema.spec("scrollMethod")
// Scroll button only means something while the method is the held-button
// one, and only if the schema still offers that method at all -- the value
// comes from what Hyprland's own description of input:scroll_method
// accepts, so this asks the schema rather than assuming.
readonly property bool heldButtonScrolling: {
const options = root.scrollMethodSpec && root.scrollMethodSpec.options
? root.scrollMethodSpec.options
: [];
if (!options.some(option => option.value === "on_button_down"))
return false;
return DesktopPreferences.get("scrollMethod") === "on_button_down";
}
SettingsCard {
title: "Mouse"
subtitle: "Applied to every pointing device that is not a touchpad."
SliderRow { setting: "pointerSensitivity" }
ChoiceRow { setting: "accelProfile" }
ToggleRow { setting: "naturalScroll" }
OptionPickerRow {
id: accelRow
readonly property var spec: PreferenceSchema.spec("accelProfile")
label: accelRow.spec ? accelRow.spec.label : "Acceleration"
detail: accelRow.spec ? accelRow.spec.detail : ""
options: accelRow.spec && accelRow.spec.options ? accelRow.spec.options : []
current: DesktopPreferences.get("accelProfile")
onPicked: value => SystemSettings.commitPreference("accelProfile", value)
}
SliderRow { setting: "scrollFactor" }
ToggleRow { setting: "naturalScroll" }
ToggleRow { setting: "leftHanded" }
ToggleRow {
setting: "middleClickPaste"
detail: "Paste the primary selection in GTK and native Wayland applications; individual apps may choose not to support it"
}
OptionPickerRow {
id: scrollMethodRow
label: root.scrollMethodSpec ? root.scrollMethodSpec.label : "Scroll method"
detail: root.scrollMethodSpec ? root.scrollMethodSpec.detail : ""
options: root.scrollMethodSpec && root.scrollMethodSpec.options
? root.scrollMethodSpec.options
: []
current: DesktopPreferences.get("scrollMethod")
divider: scrollButtonRow.visible
onPicked: value => SystemSettings.commitPreference("scrollMethod", value)
}
// Hidden on every other method: the number stays valid and stored, but
// a control that governs nothing is exactly what this page exists to
// stop shipping.
SliderRow {
id: scrollButtonRow
setting: "scrollButton"
visible: root.heldButtonScrolling
divider: false
}
}
@@ -45,27 +132,87 @@ SettingsPage {
subtitle: "Separate from the mouse on purpose: libinput keeps them apart, and a touchpad and a mouse usually want to scroll in opposite directions."
ToggleRow { setting: "touchpadTapToClick" }
ToggleRow { setting: "touchpadNaturalScroll" }
ToggleRow { setting: "touchpadDisableWhileTyping" }
SliderRow { setting: "touchpadScrollFactor" }
ToggleRow { setting: "touchpadClickfinger" }
ToggleRow { setting: "touchpadTapAndDrag" }
ChoiceRow { setting: "touchpadDragLock" }
ToggleRow { setting: "touchpadMiddleButtonEmulation"; divider: false }
}
SettingsCard {
visible: InputDevices.hasTouchpad
title: "Gestures"
subtitle: "Three fingers sideways moves between workspaces, up opens the overview, and down closes it — the same gestures GNOME used. Which gestures exist is fixed by the compositor at startup; what they feel like is here."
ToggleRow { setting: "touchpadNaturalScroll" }
SliderRow { setting: "touchpadScrollFactor" }
ToggleRow { setting: "touchpadDisableWhileTyping" }
ToggleRow { setting: "touchpadMiddleButtonEmulation" }
// Which gestures exist is fixed by the compositor at startup -- three
// fingers sideways moves between workspaces, up opens the overview.
// What they feel like is here.
SliderRow { setting: "swipeDistance" }
ToggleRow { setting: "swipeInvert"; divider: false }
}
SettingsCard {
title: "Pointer"
title: "Pointer behavior"
ChoiceRow { setting: "followMouse" }
OptionPickerRow {
id: followMouseRow
readonly property var spec: PreferenceSchema.spec("followMouse")
label: followMouseRow.spec ? followMouseRow.spec.label : "Pointer focus"
detail: followMouseRow.spec ? followMouseRow.spec.detail : ""
options: followMouseRow.spec && followMouseRow.spec.options ? followMouseRow.spec.options : []
current: DesktopPreferences.get("followMouse")
onPicked: value => SystemSettings.commitPreference("followMouse", value)
}
OptionPickerRow {
id: focusOnCloseRow
readonly property var spec: PreferenceSchema.spec("focusOnClose")
label: focusOnCloseRow.spec ? focusOnCloseRow.spec.label : "When a window closes"
detail: focusOnCloseRow.spec ? focusOnCloseRow.spec.detail : ""
options: focusOnCloseRow.spec && focusOnCloseRow.spec.options ? focusOnCloseRow.spec.options : []
current: DesktopPreferences.get("focusOnClose")
onPicked: value => SystemSettings.commitPreference("focusOnClose", value)
}
ToggleRow { setting: "cursorHideWhileTyping" }
SliderRow { setting: "cursorInactiveTimeout"; zeroLabel: "Never" }
ToggleRow { setting: "cursorWarpOnWorkspaceChange" }
SliderRow { setting: "cursorSize"; divider: false }
}
SettingsCard {
title: "Try it"
subtitle: "Every setting above applies live — draw and scroll to feel them. Nothing here is saved."
InputTestArea {}
}
SettingsCard {
title: "Connected devices"
subtitle: "What the compositor sees, minus the phantoms: transceiver siblings, virtual keyboards and consumer-control endpoints that are not devices anybody types on."
Repeater {
model: root.devices
TextRow {
id: deviceRow
required property var modelData
required property int index
width: parent ? parent.width : 620
icon: String(deviceRow.modelData.glyph)
label: String(deviceRow.modelData.label)
detail: String(deviceRow.modelData.detail)
divider: deviceRow.index < root.devices.length - 1
}
}
TextRow {
visible: root.devices.length === 0
label: "No input devices reported"
detail: "The compositor answered with nothing this page could name"
divider: false
}
}
}