From 0d4b50fd6e200cb8b720ee0b917b882d2d03542b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Hutterer Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2018 10:00:59 +1000 Subject: [PATCH] man: note that we don't do /dev/input/by-id or /dev/input/by-path For logind-setups we need to match the path libinput wants to open with the Option Device path that the device has so we know when to return the server-fd. This doesn't work for by-id or by-path because libinput resolves those (through udev) to the actual eventX node so our paths look different when they are the same device. This could be fixed but since this is easy enough to work around with a InputClass section and rather a niche case, it's not really worth the effort. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105562 Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer Reviewed-by: Adam Jackson --- man/libinput.man | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/man/libinput.man b/man/libinput.man index 2725390..ec0f439 100644 --- a/man/libinput.man +++ b/man/libinput.man @@ -381,6 +381,12 @@ it takes left-handed-ness into account. .TP This feature is provided by this driver, not by libinput. +.SH BUGS +This driver does not work with \fBOption \*qDevice\*q\fR set to an event +node in \fI/dev/input/by-id\fR and \fI/dev/input/by-path\fR. This can be +usually be worked by using \fBSection \*qInputClass\*q\fR with an +appropriate \fBMatch*\fR statement in the __xconfigfile__(__filemansuffix__). + .SH AUTHORS Peter Hutterer .SH "SEE ALSO"