Directional shortcuts should work with touchpad, right?

Software darktable
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Thanks to a recent discussion on shortcuts I learnt about directional ones. However, they don’t work with my touchpad: defining a directional shortcut or using an already defined one (moving the mouse pointer or scrolling with the touchpad on my laptop) results in no action.

Interestingly though, built-in shortcuts (e.g., ctrl-scroll to zoom in lighttable view) do work with my touchpad.

So… I’m asking for confirmation that they are expected to work, correct?

Thanks,

Juan

darktable 5.4.0
Ubuntu 24.04
Dell XPS 13 9600

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Hi @juanito,

Just to clarify, shortcuts are always triggered by a key press. You cannot have shortcuts that use only mouse/trackpad movements.

That said, yes, they should work. If the predefined ones work, then probably you are not setting them up correctly.

Maybe the manual can help?

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Thanks Daniele. I understand the manual and the process. (Thanks for contributing that part of the manual, BTW).

And it all works fine when I use a mouse. I have defined, for instance, “x, horizontal” to set agx/curve/contrast (which I could only define using the mouse, not the touchpad). When I press “x” and move the mouse horizontally, contrast changes as intended. But if I try to move the pointer with the touchpad, nothing happens (the pointer does not move either, until I release the x key).

Maybe there’s something wrong with my system, then.