[arch-general] xinput in ArchLinux
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. -- damjan
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.
Aaron Griffin schrieb:
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.
And I thought Jan mentioned there was a new feature in the Xorg server 1.6 related to this (which can apparently be used with synaptics). But this might be something different.
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
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.
I wan't aware that there was an old xinput too. So whatever was true about the old xinput, it's probably not true anymore. I've learned about xinput from the http://planet.freedesktop.org agregator, latest entry is from Peter Hutterer (http://who-t.blogspot.com/2009/01/tip-of-day-wheel-emulation.html). So, basically, the xinput utility is the only way to query the X servers input devices, list and change their properties. It also seems to be used for the MPX functionallity (slowly entering in the upstream xorg). -- damjan
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.
Here's a text that explains about xinput properties, and how the xinput tool is used to work with them: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/InputDeviceProperties one of the ideas behind xinput properties is to replace the cstom SHM protocol used in the synaptics driver -- damjan
Bug/RFE filed http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/14160 On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 00:04, 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.
Here's a text that explains about xinput properties, and how the xinput tool is used to work with them: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/InputDeviceProperties
one of the ideas behind xinput properties is to replace the cstom SHM protocol used in the synaptics driver
-- damjan
-- damjan
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Aaron Griffin
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Damjan Georgievski
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Grigorios Bouzakis
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Thomas Bächler