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authorLaszlo Agocs <laszlo.agocs@theqtcompany.com>2015-08-17 18:25:42 +0200
committerLaszlo Agocs <laszlo.agocs@theqtcompany.com>2015-08-18 14:08:35 +0000
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embedded: Update libinput docs
Change-Id: I741de416ddf4c12bbf9b6199a7a9bd5923fdde03 Reviewed-by: Andy Nichols <andy.nichols@theqtcompany.com>
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\section1 Input
When no windowing system is present, the mouse, keyboard and touch input are
- read directly via \c evdev or using helper libraries like \c tslib. Note that
- this requires that devices nodes \c {/dev/input/event*} are readable by the
- user. eglfs and linuxfb has all the evdev input handling code built-in.
+ read directly via \c evdev or using helper libraries like \c libinput or
+ \c tslib. Note that this requires that devices nodes \c {/dev/input/event*} are
+ readable by the user. eglfs and linuxfb have all the input handling code
+ compiled-in.
- \section2 Input on eglfs and linuxfb
+ \section2 Using libinput
+
+ \l{http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/libinput}{libinput} is a library
+ to handle input devices. It offers an alternative to the Qt's own evdev input
+ support. To enable using libinput, make sure the development files for libudev
+ and libinput are available when configuring and building Qt. xkbcommon is also
+ necessary if keyboard support is desired. With eglfs and linuxfb no further
+ actions are necessary as libinput will be used by default. If libinput support
+ is not available or the environment variable \c QT_QPA_EGLFS_NO_LIBINPUT is
+ set, Qt's own evdev handlers will be used as described below.
+
+ \section2 Input on eglfs and linuxfb without libinput
Parameters like the device node name can be set in the environment variables
\c QT_QPA_EVDEV_MOUSE_PARAMETERS, \c QT_QPA_EVDEV_KEYBOARD_PARAMETERS and
@@ -406,17 +418,6 @@
device discovery (based either on \e libudev or a walkthrough of
\c{/dev/input/event*}) is not functional or misbehaving.
- \section2 Using libinput
-
- \l{http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/libinput}{libinput} is a library to
- handle input devices. It offers an alternative to the default evdev input
- support. To switch to using libinput, first make sure the development files
- for libudev and libinput are available when configuring and building Qt. This
- will result in building the libinput plugin. Then, if using eglfs or linuxfb,
- disable the built-in input handlers by setting \c QT_QPA_EGLFS_DISABLE_INPUT
- or \c QT_QPA_FB_DISABLE_INPUT to \c 1. Finally, launch the application with
- \c{-plugin libinput}.
-
\section2 Debugging Input Devices
It is possible to print some information to the debug output by enabling