Introduction

This package is a pure python wrapper around libinput using ctypes. It provides high-level object oriented api, taking care of reference counting, memory management and the like automatically.

libinput is a library that handles input devices for display servers and other applications that need to directly deal with input devices. It provides device detection, device handling, input device event processing 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 pointer events from touchpads, pointer acceleration, etc.

libinput does this by reading character files in /dev/input/, so to use this package you need to run your code as root or to belong to input group.

• Installation
  • Dependencies
  • pip
  • Source
• Usage
  • Creating manual context
  • Creating udev context
  • Viewing device information
  • Getting/filtering events

API

• Contexts
  • LibInput
  • LibInputPath
  • LibInputUdev
• Events
  • Event
  • PointerEvent
  • KeyboardEvent
  • TouchEvent
  • GestureEvent
  • TabletToolEvent
  • TabletPadEvent
  • SwitchEvent
  • DeviceNotifyEvent
• Devices and Seats
  • Device
  • Seat
  • DeviceConfig
• Misc. objects
  • TabletTool
  • TabletPadModeGroup
• Constants and Enumerations

Contributors

• Thanks to Peter Hutterer for his advice on designing a pythonic API.