Monday, February 24, 2025

libinput and 3-finger dragging

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Ready in time for libinput 1.28 [1] and after a number of attempts over the years we now finally have 3-finger dragging in libinput. This...
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GNOME 48 and a changed tap-and-drag drag lock behaviour

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This is a heads up as mutter PR!4292 got merged in time for GNOME 48. It (subtly) changes the behaviour of drag lock on touchpads, but (...
Wednesday, December 18, 2024

A new issue policy for libinput - closing and reopening issues for fun and profit

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This is a heads up that if you file an issue in the libinput issue tracker , it's very likely this issue will be closed. And this pos...
Tuesday, November 19, 2024

hidreport and hut: two crates for handling HID Report Descriptors and HID Reports

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A while ago I was looking at Rust-based parsing of HID reports but, surprisingly, outside of C wrappers and the usual cratesquatting I...
Friday, October 4, 2024

HIOCREVOKE merged for kernel 6.12

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TLDR: if you know what EVIOCREVOKE does, the same now works for hidraw devices via HIDIOCREVOKE . The HID standard is the most comm...
Wednesday, June 26, 2024

GNOME tablet support papercut fixes

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Over the last months I've started looking into a few of the papercuts that affects graphics tablet users in GNOME. So now that most o...
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Thursday, June 6, 2024

goodbye xsetwacom, hello gsetwacom

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Back in the day when presumably at least someone was young, the venerable xsetwacom tool was commonly used to configure wacom tablets dev...