This post is very similar to Recommendations for multitouch gestures in Hyprland on NixOS. The solution there did not work for me, so I decided to open up a separate thread to not pollute the other one. I will happily move this discussion to that other thread instead if this practice is not approved by the moderators of this forum.
Issue
I would like to have libinput-gestures
working on my machine so that I can map movements on the touchpad to arbitrary functions. I get as far as having libinput-gestures
recognize the motions I am doing, but I can’t get it to issue out any commands.
Setup
OS: NixOS
Window manager: Hyprland (0.41
)
libinput-gestures configuration:
{ pkgs, ... }:
{
services = {
libinput.enable = true;
};
environment.etc."libinput-gestures.conf" = {
text = ''
gesture swipe up 4 kitty
'';
mode = "444";
};
# Not working!
environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
libinput
# still does not work!
libinput-gestures
wmctrl
ydotool
xdotool
];
}
This allows me to run libinput-gestures
which does detect the correct gestures, but I can’t get it to map the gestures to any command that actually runs
❯ sudo libinput-gestures -v
libinput-gestures: session unknown+unknown on Linux-6.6.33-x86_64-with-glibc2.39, python 3.11.9, libinput 1.25.0
Hash: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e
Warning: must install wmctrl to use _internal command.
Gestures configured in /nix/store/6nsr3xgy07mvfcgx3kp7rvm3mm1d2zmj-libinput-gestures-2.76/etc/libinput-gestures.conf:
swipe up _internal ws_up
swipe down _internal ws_down
swipe left xdotool key alt+Right
swipe right xdotool key alt+Left
pinch in xdotool key super+s
pinch out xdotool key super+s
libinput-gestures: device /dev/input/by-path/platform-AMDI0010:03-event-mouse(event17): SYNA32D3:00 06CB:CED1 Touchpad
libinput-gestures: SWIPE up 3 [47.129999999999995, -313.70000000000005]
_internal ws_up
Authorization required, but no authorization protocol specified
Cannot open display.
My questions are:
- I have installed
wmctrl
, how can I ensure thatlibinput-gestures
can recognize it - What is this
Authorization required, but no authorization protocol specified
- Why is it complaining about not being able to open a display?
Any leads would be more than welcome, as I am currently very stuck with this!