Wednesday, December 12, 2018

High resolution wheel scrolling on Linux v4.21

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Disclaimer: this is pending for v4.21 and thus not yet in any kernel release. Most wheel mice have a physical feature to stop the wheel ...
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Tuesday, December 11, 2018

Understanding HID report descriptors

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This time we're digging into HID - Human Interface Devices and more specifically the protocol your mouse, touchpad, joystick, keyboard...
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Monday, December 3, 2018

ggkbdd is a generic gaming keyboard daemon

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Last week while reviewing a patch I read that some gaming keyboards have two modes - keyboard mode and gaming mode. When in gaming mode, th...
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Tuesday, September 4, 2018

What's new in libinput 1.12

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libinput 1.12 was a massive development effort (over 300 patchsets) with a bunch of new features being merged. It'll be released next we...
Thursday, August 16, 2018

libinput's "new" trackpoint acceleration method

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This is mostly a request for testing, because I've received zero feedback on the patches that I merged a month ago and libinput 1.12 is...
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Thursday, August 9, 2018

How the 60-evdev.hwdb works

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libinput made a design decision early on to use physical reference points wherever possible. So your virtual buttons are X mm high/across, ...
Wednesday, August 1, 2018

A Fedora COPR for libinput git master

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To make testing libinput git master easier, I set up a whot/libinput-git Fedora COPR yesterday. This repo gets the push triggers directly f...