Peter Hutterer

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Imagine reading opinions where people conflate ftp, http, curl, firefox and a website to refer to the same thing.

That's how it feels like reading comments where people conflate X11, Xorg, Xwayland, X.Org, xinput, xrandr, etc.

The reason you don't see a lot of (ex-)X developers commenting on those, uhm, "discussions", is because... where do you even start and is this going to be worth your while? yeah, nah...

libinput 1.29 will support remapping of eraser buttons on tablet tools. Happy times.

https://who-t.blogspot.com/2025/06/libinput-and-tablet-tool-eraser-buttons.html

libinput and tablet tool eraser buttons

This is, to some degree, a followup to this 2014 post . The TLDR of that is that, many a moon ago, the corporate overlords at Microsoft that...

Maybe instead of supplying more bicycle pumps it's worth figuring out why the tyres are constantly flat.

This is a story about configuration options.

libinput 1.29 will (probably) have a Lua plugin system. But it'd be nice to get some feedback and early testing so we don't ship an unexpected API.

https://who-t.blogspot.com/2025/05/libinput-and-lua-plugins.html

libinput and Lua plugins

First of all, what's outlined here should be available in libinput 1.29 but I'm not 100% certain on all the details yet so any feedback (in...

rant about C: auto foo = "test";

Depending on your compiler, foo is now an int. Congratulations.