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/me gestures vaguely at everything Oh, hey, this works now?

If you've been paying attention (and I know you have, because it'd be embarrassing for you if you didn't) you'd have noticed that libei 1.6 (May 2026) added support for keysym and text events. libei sends logical events between a libei client and an EIS i…

Turns out it's been years since I've talked about eggs, so let's change this. libei is, of course, the library for Emulated Input[1].

This post attempts to explain how Huion tablet devices currently integrate into the desktop stack.

If you have spent any time around HID devices under Linux (for example if you are an avid mouse, touchpad or keyboard user) then you may have noticed that your single physical device actually shows up as multiple device nodes (for free!

This is a heads ups that if you install xkeyboard-config 2.45 (the package that provides the XKB data files), some manual interaction may be needed.

Part 2 is, perhaps suprisingly, a follow-up to libinput and lua-plugins (Part 1).

Yet another day, yet another need for testing a device I don't have.

This is, to some degree, a followup to this 2014 post.

First of all, what's outlined here should be available in libinput 1.29 1.30 but I'm not 100% certain on all the details yet so any feedback (in the libinput issue tracker) would be appreciated.

Ready in time for libinput 1.28 [1] and after a number of attempts over the years we now finally have 3-finger dragging in libinput.

This is a heads up as mutter PR!

This is a heads up that if you file an issue in the libinput issue tracker, it's very likely this issue will be closed.

A while ago I was looking at Rust-based parsing of HID reports but, surprisingly, outside of C wrappers and the usual cratesquatting I couldn't find anything ready to use.

TLDR: if you know what EVIOCREVOKE does, the same now works for hidraw devices via HIDIOCREVOKE.

Over the last months I've started looking into a few of the papercuts that affects graphics tablet users in GNOME.

Back in the day when presumably at least someone was young, the venerable xsetwacom tool was commonly used to configure wacom tablets devices on Xorg [1].

TLDR: Thanks to José Exposito, libwacom 2.12 will support all [1] Huion and Gaomon devices when running on a 6.10 kernel. libwacom, now almost 13 years old, is a C library that provides a bunch of static information about graphics tablets that is not othe…

For the last few months, Benjamin Tissoires and I have been working on and polishing a little tool called udev-hid-bpf [1].

Touchscreens are quite prevalent by now but one of the not-so-hidden secrets is that they're actually two devices: the monitor and the actual touch input device.

This is a follow-up from our Spam-label approach, but this time with MOAR EMOJIS because that's what the world is turning into.

You may have seen the news that Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 plans to remove Xorg.

TLDR: see the title of this blog post, it's really that trivial.

As of today, gitlab.freedesktop.org provides easy hooks to invoke the gitlab-triage tool for your project. gitlab-triage allows for the automation of recurring tasks, for example something like If the label FOO is set, close the issue and add a comment co…