#Xinput control test install#
#Xinput control test drivers#
#Xinput control test code#

no files in /etc/X11/ for either), synaptics will take precedence due to its higher numeric order 70- in the default installation directory.

If you have libinput and synaptics installed in parallel with default configuration (i.e.

#Xinput control test drivers#

If you intend to switch driver for a device to use libinput, ensure no legacy configuration files /etc/X11// for other drivers take precedence. Logitech Marble Mouse#libinput and #Tapping button re-mapping illustrate examples.Īlternative drivers for Xorg#Input devices can generally be installed in parallel. conf files for permanent option settings. $ xinput set-prop 14 'libinput Click Method Enabled' 1 1 For example, to set both options of libinput Click Method Enabled (303), either of the following can be issued: option can be either the number or the name of the option. In the following, device is either the name or number identifying the device to operate with. To view all devices and determine their names and numbers. The xinput tool is used to view or change options available for a particular device at runtime. See libinput(4) for general options to set and information about allowable values. It will output the devices on the system and their respective features supported by libinput.Īfter a restart of the graphical environment, the devices should be managed by libinput with default configuration, if no other drivers are configured to take precedence. No extra configuration is necessary for it to autodetect keyboards, touchpads, trackpointers and supported touchscreens. Available options for that tool are documented in the libinput-config README.įor Xorg, a default configuration file for the wrapper is installed to /usr/share/X11//nf. touchpad scroll speed on GNOME), libinput-config AUR or libinput-config-git AUR may be used as a work-around. To configure options that your desktop environment does not yet support (e.g. The configurable options depend on the progress of your desktop environment's support for them see #Graphical tools.

#Xinput control test install#

You may want to install xorg-xinput to be able to change settings at runtime.įor Wayland, there is no libinput configuration file.It replaces other packages used for input with X (i.e., those prefixed with xf86-input-). This driver can be used as as drop-in replacement for evdev and synaptics.'. It is 'a thin wrapper around libinput and allows for libinput to be used for input devices in X.

For Xorg, xf86-input-libinput is also a dependency.

For Wayland, the libinput package should be installed as a dependency of any graphical environment you use that has Wayland, and no additional driver is needed.

If you installed either Xorg or Wayland, then Libinput should already be installed as a dependency there are no necessary extra packages. See the libinput documentation for more information. Particularly notable is the project's goal to provide advanced support for touch (multitouch and gesture) features of touchpads and touchscreens. The X.Org input driver supports most regular input devices.

#Xinput control test code#

It provides device detection, device handling, input device event processing and abstraction to minimize the amount of custom input code compositors need to provide the common set of functionality that users expect. Libinput is a library to handle input devices in Wayland compositors and to provide a generic X.Org input driver.