Map drawing tablet buttons to keyboard shortcuts

[lotusprey]

Disclaimer

I don't know if this is already possible in niri, but I couldn't find anything about this in the key bindings section of the wiki.

Feature

I want to map a drawing tablet button to a keyboard shortcut. For example, I want the first tablet button to be mapped to Ctrl+Z.

Example Configuration Syntax

binds {
    DrawingTabletButton1 { map Ctrl+Z; }
}

Workarounds

Individual applications can probably be configured to listen to drawing tablet buttons, but having the mapping functionality would be more convenient, because:

• Applications often have the same default keyboard shortcuts for certain actions - Ctrl+Z is always undo. By having just one mapping in the niri configuration, it could immediately affect all such applications and configuring the applications separately won't be needed.
• If an application doesn't support multiple shortcuts to an action, you cannot have Ctrl+Z and a tablet button doing the same thing.

[coleleavitt]

#2536 @lotusprey please mark as answer thanks :)

[lotusprey]

Great, thanks :)

[lotusprey]

By the way, the PR adds support for tablet button commands, but how do you map it to another shortcut? Is there some tool that needs to be used @coleleavitt?

[LuckShiba]

@lotusprey based on my tests, you can use "wtype": TabletPadButton0 { spawn "wtype" "-M" "ctrl" "-k" "z"; } for "simulating" another keybind, it worked in Krita, for example

[lotusprey]

Perfect, thanks!

[tjavdar]

#2445 seems to refer somethng similar: maely, that niri does not expose tablet buttons to applications.