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.

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

Bug/RFE filed http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/14160 On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 00:04, Damjan Georgievski wrote:

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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