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Right now for buggy HID hardware or other input devices not exactly aligning to specs or having known hardware workarounds required, a new Linux kernel driver tends to be needed or at least quirks to be added to existing kernel driver code
Libinput 1.24 is available today for this input handling library used by Linux systems both legacy X11/X.Org desktops and especially by modern Wayland compositors for unifying input handling in the open-source world.
Much bugfixing happened this week, and as a result, the number of open issues only rose by 2 compared to last week. In addition, feature work and planned UI changes are in development and getting merged! Plasma 6 General info - Open issues: 84 More 1st-party widgets and System Tray icons are now always monochrome…
The libei 1.0 project milestone has now been achieved for this open-source effort started by Red Hat's Peter Hutterer for better emulated input support on Wayland.
Libei has been the multi-year effort by Red Hat's leading input expert Peter Hutterer on emulated input handling for Wayland