DESCRIPTION There is no click support accesibility feature /hover click/dwell clicker working on KDE plasma under wayland, and it only works partially on x11 (the dwell circle does not appear, but the clicks do happen) There is no feature like this shipped by default with the DE, which makes life difficult for disabled users. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Install gnome control center 2. try to run it in a wayland session 3 toggle the click support accesibility option OBSERVED RESULT Nothing happens EXPECTED RESULT A timer circle appears that suggests when the mouse click will happen, and then the mouse click happens SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System : tested on Cachy OS and Debian with KDE plasma Problem discussed here: https://discuss.kde.org/t/accessibility-for-motor-and-chronic-pain-disabilities/47086#post_11
Some use case details from the thread on Discuss > I come from Pop’s version of Gnome and need to switch soon because it is no longer supported. > It had built in accessibility features that are exactly what i need: > Click support by hovering the cursor over what needs to be clicked and showing a circle that suggested how much time is left before the automatic click happens.
> 1. Install gnome control center > 2. try to run it in a wayland session > 3 toggle the click support accesibility option Anything from gnome control center isn't going to work on Plasma. We can and should implement the functionality in Plasma though
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/merge_requests/9617
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/merge_requests/9762
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/merge_requests/3956
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/merge_requests/3964
Git commit 756b6c271d47be93330da3a2683b84c0481de438 by Sebastian Sauer. Committed on 02/09/2026 at 10:09. Pushed by vladz into branch 'master'. Add dwell clicker support This adds an accessibility tool that allows to perform a mouse click by stopping to move the cusor at a given location, without pressing a button. This aims to replace the KMouseTool application, which doesn't work on Wayland. Related: bug 472436 M +1 -0 src/input.h M +1 -0 src/plugins/CMakeLists.txt A +18 -0 src/plugins/dwellclicker/CMakeLists.txt A +370 -0 src/plugins/dwellclicker/dwellclicker.cpp [License: GPL(3+eV) GPL(v3.0) GPL(v2.0)] A +90 -0 src/plugins/dwellclicker/dwellclicker.h [License: GPL(3+eV) GPL(v3.0) GPL(v2.0)] A +41 -0 src/plugins/dwellclicker/dwellclickerconfig.kcfg A +9 -0 src/plugins/dwellclicker/dwellclickerconfig.kcfgc A +16 -0 src/plugins/dwellclicker/main.cpp [License: GPL(3+eV) GPL(v3.0) GPL(v2.0)] A +12 -0 src/plugins/dwellclicker/metadata.json A +2 -0 src/plugins/dwellclicker/metadata.json.license https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/commit/756b6c271d47be93330da3a2683b84c0481de438
Git commit c1016ae008f24c89fac97cf5bd7f3ce889233fa1 by Sebastian Sauer. Committed on 02/09/2026 at 09:44. Pushed by vladz into branch 'master'. Add Dwell Clicker applet and kcm Implement the Plasma applet and kcm for the Dwell Clicker as implement in the MR plasma/kwin!9762 Related: bug 472436 M +1 -0 applets/CMakeLists.txt A +8 -0 applets/dwellclicker/CMakeLists.txt A +6 -0 applets/dwellclicker/Messages.sh A +128 -0 applets/dwellclicker/main.qml [License: GPL(3+eV) GPL(v3.0) GPL(v2.0)] A +19 -0 applets/dwellclicker/metadata.json M +10 -2 kcms/access/CMakeLists.txt M +37 -0 kcms/access/kcmaccess.cpp M +6 -0 kcms/access/kcmaccess.h A +38 -0 kcms/access/kcmaccessibilitydwellclicker.kcfg A +150 -0 kcms/access/ui/DwellClicker.qml [License: GPL(3+eV) GPL(v3.0) GPL(v2.0)] M +6 -0 kcms/access/ui/main.qml https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/commit/c1016ae008f24c89fac97cf5bd7f3ce889233fa1