Heads up, we'll be using close/open in libinput's issue tracker as "is actionable" vs "needs info". Unfortunately close/reopen is the only thing all reporters can do, so that's what we'll use to signal state changes.
So don't get angry, closing a bug doesn't mean it's actually closed.
https://who-t.blogspot.com/2024/12/a-new-issue-policy-for-libinput-closing.html
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What is libwacom you didn't ask? Well, let me mansplain anyway: it's C library that provides you with information about graphics tablets that you can't otherwise get from the device itself. Thinks like "is this tablet integrated into a screen" or "does this stylus have an eraser".
Code wise it's a bunch of text files with a C library around those.
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Another busy 3 months for libwacom but 2.14 is now out and we have new APIs to support styli from vendors other than Wacom (this appears to be mostly a theoretical case for now) and a new integration flag to denote remotes like the Wacom ExpressKey Remote, Huion KD20, XP-Pen ACK05, ...
Oh, and for those of you on immutable distros, you can now put .tablet files into $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/libwacom
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The next version of xkeyboard-config will support the MS Copilot Key. Because nothing says AI is ready for prime time than XKB support for it.
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This was the sound of libinput 1.27 being released. New features:
etc.
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libinput/libinput/-/releases/1.27.0
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udev-hid-bpf now has a full writeup on how I added the Huion Keydial K20 - if you have a Huion device it'll likely get you 90% of the way there.
https://libevdev.pages.freedesktop.org/udev-hid-bpf/huion-keydial-kd20.html#huion-k20
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Anyone have a contact at Huion? I'm looking to get a list of usb PIDs for some old devices.
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Apropos of nothing, a few months back I was looking for a HID parsing crate and couldn't find a useful one. So I started writing my own which is now hidreport for HID report {descriptor} parsing and hut for the HID usage tables. Both are here:
https://github.com/orgs/hidutils/repositories
Together with hid-recorder and hid-replay implementations.
(This is a bit MyFirstRust project so I'm assuming the API can be done better)
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HIDIOCREVOKE has been merged for 6.12. Here's an explanation of what it is:
https://who-t.blogspot.com/2024/10/hiocrevoke-merged-for-kernel-612.html
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The point of this post is: it's not as simple as "more configuration is good" and "less configuration is bad". There's a balance, except any two people will have three opinions on where that balance lies.
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For many years every user of a Huion/XP-Pen/... tablet needed to add an xorg.conf entry because we didn't match against all tablets in the xf86-input-wacom driver.
Because configuration was available and easy, it was never reported upstream which means we never noticed and fixed it for everyone there.
This is fixed (upstream) now that I actually noticed.
And a fun side effect: if configuration weren't that easy we'd have had a bug report about this years ago.
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And while you were out there getting distracted, Nick has ported XDG Portal/libei support to synergy so it can be run under Wayland now:
https://github.com/symless/synergy/pull/7449
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hidraw revoke ioctl queued for 6.12 🎉
with (pending) logind support this means we'll be able to hand hidraw fds to applications and revoke those on vt switch (or whenever we feel like, really).
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PSA: xinput_calibrator, a ~15y old tool to calibrate X devices has moved from github to https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/xinput-calibrator
This should keep it alive a little longer.
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Tablet stylus keymappings got merged into mutter which means in GNOME47 you'll be able to bind stylus buttons to key bindings (which in turn can be mapped as shortcuts to execute commands).
Also, it's now possible to map stylus buttons to "Forward" and "switch monitor".
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Tablet tool pressure ranges got merged into mutter which means in GNOME 47 you'll be able to set a minimum and maximum threshold for your pen tool.
Especially the latter may help reduce RSI because you no longer need to press as hard to get the full pressure.
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weird language thing I only realised recently: German has three genders for words (masculine/feminine/neuter represented by der/die/das) with no coherent rule, you just have to know.
But using the diminutive always changes to the neuter ("das"). Which is why the German word for "girl" is grammatically neuter.
And this concludes today's "useless language fact" section of our program.
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A small summary of the GNOME tablet support improvements from the last few months:
https://who-t.blogspot.com/2024/06/gnome-tablet-support-papercut-fixes.html
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Holy cannoli, Batman. Meson supports f-strings? Why hasn't anyone told me this before.
foo = "bar"
blah = f"@foo@"
And here's me using .format() like some sort of animal.
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If you (want to) have a 0x1A86 USB footpedal (e.g. iKKEGOL but sold under other brands too), there's now a BPF userhack so you can make it do what you want.
Default is to send a "b" but I have enough of those so I don't need a foot pedal to give me more.
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libevdev/udev-hid-bpf/-/merge_requests/102/
The device can actually store its configuration but that would require more effort than writing a quick bpf to experiment with it.
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