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Edit 2018-02-26: renamed from libevdev-python to python-libevdev. That seems to be a more generic name and easier to package. Last year, j...

This post explains how the evdev protocol works. After reading this post you should understand what evdev is and how to interpret evdev eve...

This post describes how to create uinput devices through the new libevdev library. For more information about libevdev, please refer to the...

This post describes how to change the appearance of a device through the new libevdev library. For more information about libevdev, please ...

This post describes how to read input events from the kernel through the new libevdev library. What is libevdev? libevdev is a wrapper l...

This is essentially a GNOME 3.0-specific update to New evdev middle mouse button emulation defaults . In recent evdev versions, middle mouse...

As a heads-up, the next version of evdev (2.5) has a changed default for the middle mouse button emulation code. It is now off by default. F...

Many of you are probably familiar with evtest , a small debugging utility written by Vojtek Pavlik to check what input device data is leavin...

[update 30 May 2012: add xorg.conf.d snippet] First, run xinput --list --short to identify your mouse device. Let's assume that your m...

After the groundwork by Matt Helsley we now have generic axis support in evdev. So evdev finally sets the device up according to what the ke...

Quick addition to my previous blog post : If you have an xorg.conf that references evdev devices, these will generate duplicate events with ...

Note that the changes I describe here are currently available in Fedora rawhide, but I expect they will be available soon in a similar form ...

Once upon a time, we had a number of free operating systems. Linux, BSDs, emacs, XFree86, you name it. Then one of them chose to be less lik...