libinput

libinput is a library that provides a full input stack for display servers and other applications that need to handle input devices provided by the kernel.

libinput provides device detection, event handling and abstraction so minimize the amount of custom input code the user of libinput need to provide the common set of functionality that users expect. Input event processing includes scaling touch coordinates, generating relative pointer events from touchpads, pointer acceleration, etc.

libinput is not used directly by applications. Think of it more as a device driver than an application library. See What is libinput? for more details.

Users and Developers

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API documentation

The API documentation is available here:

https://wayland.freedesktop.org/libinput/doc/latest/api/

Note

This documentation is generally only needed by authors of Wayland compositors or other developers dealing with input events directly.

License

libinput is licensed under the MIT license

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"),
to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation
the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense,
and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: [...]

See the COPYING file for the full license information.

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