[arch-general] xinput in ArchLinux

[Damjan Georgievski]

> 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