Hi all !

I'm back and I'd like to set up gestures in KDE to close/minimize/maximize windows. For example, if I slash a window from top right to left bottom while pushing the wheel, it closes the window.
I saw the "Shortcuts and gestures" menu but was unable to do anything with it ><" Please help ! there isn't any help page for it and I didn't find anything on the web to help myself...

Thanks
KDE 4.5.5

In System Settings -> Shortcuts and Gestures -> Custom Shortcuts:

First you need to enable mouse gestures: Settings -> check "Gestures" and choose a mouse button.
Then you need to create a new gesture: Edit -> New -> Mouse Gesture Action -> e.g. Command/URL.

In Trigger tab, click on Edit and draw your gesture.
I tried to use "Send Keyboard Input" to send the keyboard shortcuts (e.g. Alt+F4 for close) but it didn't work well for me. There's another way using a tool called xte, see this blog post for more information. (There might be a better way, but in that case I don't know about it.)

Hans wrote:First you need to enable mouse gestures: Settings -> check "Gestures" and choose a mouse button.
Then you need to create a new gesture: Edit -> New -> Mouse Gesture Action -> e.g. Command/URL.

What command should i type in ?
quit
exit
close ?

Did you check the link? With xte (normally in the xautomation package) you can emulate keyboard presses with a command, for example

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xte 'keydown Alt_L' 'key F4' 'keyup Alt_L'

to send the shortcut to close the active window. To work with maximize/minimize, you need to specify shortcuts for these actions first (in the Global Keyboard Shortcuts module in System Settings).

yes, but it doesn't really fits my needs, because i want to get rid of keyboard and only click and draw something with my mouse...

What I would like is like :
> I draw a line from top right to bottom left, pressing the 2nd button of my mouse
> The window closes.

What you propose is :
> I click and hold a key on the key board
> The window closes.

Do you see what i mean ?

No, I'm describing what you asked for. You need to set a "close window" action for the mouse gesture, and one way to do that is to emulate Alt+F4, which is what I used xte for. The trigger for the action is a mouse gesture, for example "drawing" a line with the mouse while holding down one mouse button.

Okay all, I installed easystroke : easy to use, perfectly reliable. No more problems

KDE's mouse gestures work with Ctrl+Q instead of Alt+F4.
I don't have the faintest clue as to why this happens, but it works.

Yeah... It won't work enough for me !
Easystroke is the best software I've got at time.

You're right. It IS wonderful.
(Unfortunately, it's not available in my distro due to some dependency problems.)