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What it is

Peter Hutterer's linux.conf.au 2020 talk on creating libinput, the unified userspace input library, and the difficulties of handling the many quirks of input devices.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Cited for insight into the hard realities of Linux input handling and libinput's thinly staffed maintenance.

  • 1 people recommended it
  • 1 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2020, last 2024

What HN commenters said

  1. “One of the folks behind both Wayland and X gave a fantastic talk on the issues and the hell.”

    Talk on the problems with X input handling

    indrora, 2024-08 · Strong recommendation · in “Window Maker: X11 window manager with the look and feel of the NeXTSTEP UI”

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Topics: libinput, wayland, x11, peter hutterer, linux

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