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This was part of the high-resolution wheel work that was factored out ahead of
time. Problem is: this breaks scroll button emulation in the server as we
use the distance to determine when we click buttons 4-7.
Before: movement of 15 normalized pixel units on a touchpad - one click. Now:
120 of those units. So that's a bit less than ideal.
The change to 120 can be done, but needs the corresponding handling in the
axis distance calculations.
Fixes #24
This reverts commit 055481187d.
xf86-input-libinput - a libinput-based X driver
The official repository for this driver is https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-input-libinput
This is an X driver based on libinput. It is a thin wrapper around libinput, so while it does provide all features that libinput supports it does little beyond.
WARNING: misconfiguration of an X input driver may leave you without usable input devices in your X session. Use with caution.
Prerequisites
To build, you'll need the X.Org X server SDK (check your distribution for a xorg-x11-server-devel package or similar) and libinput (check your distribution for libinput-devel or similar).
To get libinput from source, see: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/libinput/
To build the X server from source: https://www.x.org/wiki/Building_the_X_Window_System/
Building
To build this driver:
autoreconf -vif
./configure --prefix=$HOME/build
make && make install
Note that this assumes the same prefix as used in "Building the X Window System" above, adjust as required. If you want a system install, use a prefix of /usr.
Install the default configuration file:
cp conf/99-libinput.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/
This will assign this driver to all devices. Use with caution.
Bugs
Bugs in libinput go to the Issues section of the libinput gitlab project: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libinput/libinput/issues
Bugs in this driver go to the Issues section of its gitlab project: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-input-libinput/issues