On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 6:31 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Damjan Georgievski <gdamjan@gmail.com> wrote:
There's a PKGBUILD in AUR of xinput, but I think it needs to be with the other Xorg packages in extra, probably even in the "xorg" group.
xinput is a utillity that can dynamically change different properties of the X input devices like the ones that otherwise need to be configured in the xorg.conf file or the HAL fdi file. For example, enabling wheel emulation of a trackpoint.
You can also use it to enable or disable input devices.
You're welcome to file a feature request for this, but I have a feeling it will be closed. xinput is older than Arch itself, and you're the first one to bring it up. I recommend you follow the proper procedure for this - vote it up, wait for it to go to community. Once it's popular enough to be in community, we can possibly move it to extra.
Xinput isnt the one available here: ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/utilities/ The source is available here now, updated: http://xorg.freedesktop.org/archive/individual/app/ last release 15th of Jan 2009. I dont know how useful it is though. -- Greg