Tuesday, May 23, 2017

xinput list shows a "xwayland-pointer" device but not my real devices and what to do about it

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TLDR: If you see devices like "xwayland-pointer" show up in your xinput list output, then you are running under a Wayland composit...
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Saturday, April 1, 2017

inputfd - a protocol for direct access to input devices in wayland

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This is a higher-level explanation of the inputfd protocol RFC I sent to the list on March 31. Note that this is a first draft, this protoc...
Friday, March 17, 2017

A simple house-moving tip: use tape to mark empty cupboards

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When you've emptied a cupboard, put masking tape across it, ideally in a colour that's highly visible. This way you immediately see ...
Friday, February 10, 2017

libinput knows about internal and external touchpads

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libinput has a couple of features that 'automagically' work on touchpads such as disable-while-typing and the lid switch triggered ...
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Wednesday, February 1, 2017

libinput and lid switch events

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I merged a patchset from James Ye today to add support for switch events to libinput, specifically: lid switch events. This feature is sch...
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Monday, January 30, 2017

How libinput opens device nodes

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In order to read events and modify devices, libinput needs a file descriptor to the /dev/input/event node. But those files are only accessib...
Thursday, January 26, 2017

libinput and wheel tilt events

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We're in the middle of the 1.7 development cycle and one of the features merged already is support for "wheel tilt", i.e. supp...
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