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 But it seems to be outdated and 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.
