[arch-general] xinput in ArchLinux

[Damjan Georgievski]

Bug/RFE filed http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/14160

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 00:04, Damjan Georgievski <gdamjan at 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
>
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> --
> damjan
>



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damjan