I was trying to customize the keyboard shortcut for the screen magnifier which functions as shortcut+scroll for zoom in and out (default value is meta+ctrl). However, customization does not work in the sense that I cannot modify the zoom with shortcut+scroll, I have tried both ctrl and ctrl+meta+shift. The waird thing is that even when I manually enter the default shortcut, the functionality does not return back, I have to reset the setting from the relevant button.
A reboot did not help either, I am writing this post first before filling a bug report in-case there is something I am missing.
you can only assign keyboard signals to the shortcuts
you can remap a mouse signal to generate the keyboard signals using something like input-remapper
but then you lose the scroll wheel function for everything else.
my defaults on kubuntu are meta+= , meta± and meta+0 which i think is better than meta+ctrl as it’s not as easy to hit by accident.
I think I might be mistaking the setting I was referring to so, I am attaching a Screenshot of the Settings window for the relevant section:
While taking this screenshot, I realized that the issue is a localization issue since I do not use my computer in English yet, the feature worked in English. The System Settings writes to .config/kwinrc → PointerAxisGestureModifiers the localized version of the keyboard shortcut; however, for some reason kwin cannot use that value, it does work on English since I think it expects the English lang of modifier keys.
