Add a way to control the volume/brightness with gestures

[ConstantMan]

Is your feature request related to a problem?

In Windows 10 there's an ability to change volume with 3 fingers up/down
For example if I swipe 5mm volume changes by 5% (approximately), 10mm - 10% and so on.
With libinput-gestures and pulseaudio on Arch:
gesture swipe up pactl set-sink-volume 0 +10%

So if I want to change volume by 30% I need to swipe 3 times, not 1.

Describe the solution you'd like

Touchegg i believe can implement this feature way better than libinput ,especially with the "repeat command" option

Describe alternatives you've considered

I tried adding the keyboard shortcut i have for volume -/+ but it doesn't work and i don't know what command i should use

[JoseExposito]

Hi!

This is already possible, try this config:

    <gesture type="SWIPE" fingers="3" direction="UP">
      <action type="RUN_COMMAND">
        <repeat>true</repeat>
        <command>pactl set-sink-volume 0 +10%</command>
        <decreaseCommand>pactl set-sink-volume 0 -10%</decreaseCommand>
      </action>
    </gesture>

    <gesture type="SWIPE" fingers="3" direction="DOWN">
      <action type="RUN_COMMAND">
        <repeat>true</repeat>
        <command>pactl set-sink-volume 0 -10%</command>
        <decreaseCommand>pactl set-sink-volume 0 +10%</decreaseCommand>
      </action>
    </gesture>

[ConstantMan]

Nice ,I just tested it very smooth , I'm really surprised ,although it would be nice if it was possible to see the volume OSD

[parkerlreed]

You can. Just emulate the button presses

xdotool key XF86AudioLowerVolume

or

xdotool key XF86AudioRaiseVolume

As the commands

[Troilus90]

Hi, Josè.

I tried to do the same on KDE neon, automatically and manually, but it doesn't work. Maybe because is debian based and not arch based. Is there a list of the commands? Sorry but I'm new in the GNU/Linux world.

Thanks.

Edit: With the following commands it works. I post it with those about brightness control. It could be usefull for someone else. Thanks again for this spectacular software.

To decrease the volume:
qdbus org.kde.kglobalaccel /component/kmix invokeShortcut "decrease_volume"

To increase the volume:
qdbus org.kde.kglobalaccel /component/kmix invokeShortcut "increase_volume"

To decrese the brightness:
qdbus org.kde.Solid.PowerManagement /org/kde/Solid/PowerManagement/Actions/BrightnessControl org.kde.Solid.PowerManagement.Actions.BrightnessControl.setBrightness $(expr $(qdbus org.kde.Solid.PowerManagement /org/kde/Solid/PowerManagement/Actions/BrightnessControl org.kde.Solid.PowerManagement.Actions.BrightnessControl.brightness) - 375)

To increase the brightness:
qdbus org.kde.Solid.PowerManagement /org/kde/Solid/PowerManagement/Actions/BrightnessControl org.kde.Solid.PowerManagement.Actions.BrightnessControl.setBrightness $(expr $(qdbus org.kde.Solid.PowerManagement /org/kde/Solid/PowerManagement/Actions/BrightnessControl org.kde.Solid.PowerManagement.Actions.BrightnessControl.brightness) + 375)

[thepronightly]

Hi, Josè.

I tried to do the same on KDE neon, automatically and manually, but it doesn't work. Maybe because is debian based and not arch based. Is there a list of the commands? Sorry but I'm new in the GNU/Linux world.

Thanks.

Edit: With the following commands it works. I post it with those about brightness control. It could be usefull for someone else. Thanks again for this spectacular software.

To decrease the volume: qdbus org.kde.kglobalaccel /component/kmix invokeShortcut "decrease_volume"

To increase the volume: qdbus org.kde.kglobalaccel /component/kmix invokeShortcut "increase_volume"

To decrese the brightness: qdbus org.kde.Solid.PowerManagement /org/kde/Solid/PowerManagement/Actions/BrightnessControl org.kde.Solid.PowerManagement.Actions.BrightnessControl.setBrightness $(expr $(qdbus org.kde.Solid.PowerManagement /org/kde/Solid/PowerManagement/Actions/BrightnessControl org.kde.Solid.PowerManagement.Actions.BrightnessControl.brightness) - 375)

To increase the brightness: qdbus org.kde.Solid.PowerManagement /org/kde/Solid/PowerManagement/Actions/BrightnessControl org.kde.Solid.PowerManagement.Actions.BrightnessControl.setBrightness $(expr $(qdbus org.kde.Solid.PowerManagement /org/kde/Solid/PowerManagement/Actions/BrightnessControl org.kde.Solid.PowerManagement.Actions.BrightnessControl.brightness) + 375)

That command great! Thank you for this mate.