palm-detection-switch

Description

I like to not have my cursor jump around when I'm trying to write an essay for class, but I also like to play Minecraft. Manually going into the Sway configuration file to swap around the palm detection feature is a pain. So, this script automates that.

Setup

You must have an input configuration for your touchpad, and you must have the line dwt enabled or dwt disabled.

For example:

   input "2362:628:PIXA3854:00_093A:0274_Touchpad" {
       tap enabled
       natural_scroll enabled
       dwt enabled
   }

Installation

Dependencies

I believe the only dependencies are:

• Mako (for notifications)
• Rust

Arch Linux

You can download the PKGBUILD from this project. Then, like every other package, you can do a good old makepkg -si.

Other Distributions

You can compile the binary by downloading this project and issuing cargo build --release. Then, you can go ahead and move the binary from ./target/release into your /usr/bin directory, or wherever is appropriate.

Use

Simply issue palm-detection-switch from the terminal, or bind it to a Sway hotkey, like so:

bindsym $mod+Shift+p exec palm-detection-switch