Plasma 6.7 Wayland: How can I remap three-finger touchpad gestures independently of four-finger gestures?

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Hi everyone,

I’m running:

  • KDE Plasma 6.7.2
  • Wayland

After a lot of debugging, I confirmed that my touchpad and libinput are working correctly.

Running:

sudo libinput debug-events

shows:

GESTURE_SWIPE_BEGIN
GESTURE_SWIPE_UPDATE
GESTURE_SWIPE_END

for three-finger gestures.

Current behavior:

• 4-finger swipe left/right → switches virtual desktops
• 4-finger swipe up → Overview
• 4-finger swipe down → Desktop Grid

Three-finger behavior:

• 3-finger left/right → also switches virtual desktops
• 3-finger up/down → no action

So gestures are working, but I cannot find any way to configure them.

My goal is to have the ability to :

Keep all existing 4-finger gestures exactly as they are.

Change only the 3-finger gestures.

Ideally:

3-finger up → overview
3-finger down → Show Desktop
3-finger left/right → Window switching

Questions:

  1. Is this currently possible in Plasma 6.7?
  2. Is there a configuration file for gesture mappings?
  3. Is this intentionally hardcoded?
  4. Is there a recommended Wayland-native solution?

Basically I would like to have windows like gestures when I use the Touchpad ,and if possible it should be customizable.

Thanks!

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Re-mapping touchpad gestures is unfortunately not possible yet. It’s in progress, but the work is very complex.

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If you’re interested in following along with the work on this one, the feature request in Bugzilla is: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=402857

And some open merge requests on the topic include: