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8. Keyboard, trackpad and gestures

Keyboard

  • The built-in keyboard and trackpad are SPI devices (applespi). Omarchy's installer detects the model and installs macbook12-spi-driver-dkms. Until it is installed (live image, first boot) use a USB keyboard.
  • Layout: Omarchy uses PC layouts, so on a Nordic or German layout the AltGr symbols ({ [ ] } | \) are typed with an Option key acting as AltGr plus the number row (Swedish: Option+7 = {); if one Option key gives nothing, use the other. Set the layout in ~/.config/hypr/input.lua (kb_layout, kb_variant); Omarchy's file has a commented example.
  • The keyboard backlight is spi::kbd_backlight; see 07-light.md.

Trackpad

sh scripts/install-input.sh (as yourself, no sudo) appends this to your ~/.config/hypr/input.lua (Omarchy keeps personal overrides there):

hl.config({
  input = {
    touchpad = {
      natural_scroll = true,        -- content follows the fingers, like macOS
      clickfinger_behavior = true,  -- two-finger click = right click
      scroll_factor = 0.33,         -- Omarchy's suggestion is 0.4; 0.33 felt closer to macOS
      tap_to_click = false,         -- see below
      disable_while_typing = true,
    },
  },
})
hl.gesture({ fingers = 3, direction = "horizontal", action = "workspace" })
  • Hyprland's Lua config uses tap_to_click with underscores in a table. The option name in hyprctl is input:touchpad:tap-to-click; ["tap-to-click"] = false in the Lua table is accepted silently and does nothing. Check with hyprctl getoption input:touchpad:tap-to-click (bool: false, set: true).
  • Why tap-to-click is off: the text cursor jumping back into the text while typing is a palm brushing the pad, which registers as a tap, and a click moves the caret. Libinput's disable-while-typing is weaker on this SPI trackpad. Pressing the pad down still clicks.
  • Three-finger swipe moves between workspaces. Also Super+Tab, Super+scroll, and Super+1..9.

Window management in Omarchy (Hyprland, tiling)

There is no minimise: windows tile, and you use workspaces instead. Super+1..9 switch, Super+Shift+1..9 send a window there, Super+arrows move focus, Alt+Tab cycles windows on the workspace, Super+W closes, Super+Space opens the Omarchy menu, Super+Alt+Space the app launcher, Super+K the list of all keybindings. Copy and paste in terminals are Super+C / Super+V; select-all is Ctrl+A in text boxes.

Start apps on their own workspaces

A small script you write yourself (e.g. ~/.local/bin/workspace-startup, made executable), run from ~/.config/hypr/autostart.lua, can open each app on its workspace at login:

o.exec_on_start("/home/you/.local/bin/workspace-startup")

with hyprctl dispatch "hl.dsp.exec_cmd(\"uwsm-app -- chromium\", { workspace = \"2 silent\" })" per app. (Hyprland's Lua dispatch syntax is hl.dsp.exec_cmd(cmd, { workspace = "N silent" }); the older exec [workspace N silent] form is a parse error.)