libinput

libinput is a library to handle input devices in Wayland compositors and to provide a generic X.Org input driver. It provides device detection, device handling, input device event processing and abstraction so minimize the amount of custom input code compositors need to provide the common set of functionality that users expect.

This wiki page provides only basic information, more documentation about libinput is available in the API documentation.

Releases

• 1.0 - released August 26, 2015
  • 1.0.1 - released Sep 3, 2015
  • 1.0.2 - released Oct 20, 2015
• 1.1 - released Oct 26, 2015
  • 1.1.1 - released Nov 16, 2015
  • 1.1.2 - released Dec 09, 2015
  • 1.1.3 - released Dec 16, 2015
  • 1.1.4 - released Dec 22, 2015
  • 1.1.5 - released Jan 25, 2016
  • 1.1.6 - released Feb 05, 2016
  • 1.1.7 - released Feb 10, 2016
• 1.2 - released Feb 23, 2016
  • 1.2.1 - released Feb 29, 2016
  • 1.2.2 - released Mar 15, 2016
  • 1.2.3 - released Apr 12, 2016
• 1.3 - released May 10, 2016
  • 1.3.1 - released May 30, 2016
  • 1.3.2 - released Jun 16, 2016
  • 1.3.3 - released Jun 24, 2016
• 1.4 - released Jul 18, 2016
  • 1.4.1 - released Aug 05, 2016
  • 1.4.2 - released Aug 30, 2016
  • 1.4.3 - released Sep 23, 2016
• 1.5 - released Sep 14, 2016
  • 1.5.1 - released Nov 11, 2016
  • 1.5.2 - released Nov 25, 2016
  • 1.5.3 - released Dec 07, 2016
  • 1.5.4 - released Jan 13, 2017
• 1.6.0 - released Jan 20, 2017
  • 1.6.1 - released Feb 02, 2017
  • 1.6.2 - released Feb 21, 2017
  • 1.6.3 - released Mar 8, 2017
• 1.7.0 - released Mar 23, 2017
  • 1.7.1 - released Apr 25, 2017
  • 1.7.2 - released May 05, 2017
  • 1.7.3 - released Jun 09, 2017
• 1.8.0 - released Jul 03, 2017
  • 1.8.1 - released Jul 19, 2017
  • 1.8.2 - released Sep 7, 2017
  • 1.8.3 - released Oct 4, 2017
  • 1.8.4 - released Oct 30, 2017
• 1.9.0 - released Oct 19, 2017
  • 1.9.1 - released Oct 30, 2017
  • 1.9.2 - released Nov 15, 2017
  • 1.9.3 - released Nov 28, 2017
  • 1.9.4 - released Dec 14, 2017

Earlier releases

As of the 0.12 release, the API/ABI is stable.

0.1.0, 0.2.0, 0.3.0, 0.4.0, 0.5.0, 0.6.0, 0.7.0, 0.8.0, 0.9.0, 0.10.0, 0.11.0, 0.12.0, 0.13.0, 0.14.0, 0.14.1, 0.15.0, 0.16.0, 0.17.0, 0.18.0, 0.19.0, 0.20.0, 0.21.0, 0.99.1

git Repository

• git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/wayland/libinput
• ssh://git.freedesktop.org/git/wayland/libinput

cgit Web Frontend

• http://cgit.freedesktop.org/wayland/libinput

Documentation

• API documentation (development branch)
• API documentation (releases)
• Info for libinput developers

Feature-specific documentation

Feature-specific documentation is available in the Related Pages section of the API documentation.

A note on feature requests

Downloads

Source tarballs are available http://www.freedesktop.org/software/libinput/

Development

Development and discusssion of libinput happens on the wayland-devel@lists.freedesktop.org mailing list. Please submit patches to this list as well.

Reporting Bugs

libinput has a bugzilla component under the Wayland product freedesktop.org Bugzilla

• File a new bug
• list of open libinput bugs

Note that in almost all cases we require extra information to be able to triage and fix the bug correctly. Please read the Reporting Bugs section.

X.Org libinput driver

The X.Org libinput driver is a thin wrapper around libinput and allows for libinput to be used for input devices in X. This driver can be used as as drop-in replacement for evdev and synaptics. Simply build and install in your $PREFIX, then install the config file in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/. Restart X and the libinput driver will take over your devices.

• http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-input-libinput/