[arch-general] xinput in ArchLinux

[Grigorios Bouzakis]

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 6:31 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 8:49 AM, 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.
>
> 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