Posts by whot@fosstodon.org
(DIR) Post #AWhsxwscBz6QLTCMHw by whot@fosstodon.org
2023-06-15T01:47:22Z
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Fun fact: as native German speaker, reading the letter "u" on its own sounds, in my head, (roughly) like the English "ooh".Which means: yes, u can file a bug and u can use SMS speak where u shorten "you" to u so u can save 2 letters.But what I read is a badly typed bug report interspersed by monkey noises.
(DIR) Post #AZ5CN5F6c231fj44dk by whot@fosstodon.org
2023-08-25T04:01:30Z
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Aaaand just like that do we have a libinput 1.24.0 release. New features are default natural scrolling on apple touchpads and better handling of pressure offsets on worn out tablet pens.Enjoy! (but you don't have to if you don't want to)https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2023-August/042967.html
(DIR) Post #Aat6uFyhU0xaycZtWS by whot@fosstodon.org
2023-10-18T03:00:27Z
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@RAOF @airlied X Down Under. To definitely wreck havoc with all travel budgets.
(DIR) Post #Ab79amrVOViOIyoo1A by whot@fosstodon.org
2023-10-25T02:10:42Z
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New Xorg security advisory 🎉 https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2023-October/003430.htmlThree CVEs but statistically only the first one (5367) will matter to you. And even that one really only if you're running X as root.The second one affects Zaphod setups only and the third one only Xvfb with a Zaphod setup so they're well into niche territory, past the Unlikely canyon, and currently climbing the Improbably mountain.
(DIR) Post #AbtPRIkeagNy1H0QTY by whot@fosstodon.org
2023-11-17T01:38:52Z
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libinput is turning 10 today 🎂
(DIR) Post #AcWdU4NTStK8pcobKa by whot@fosstodon.org
2023-12-05T23:55:16Z
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libei 1.2.0 is out - no new features but a few bugs fixed that will result in significantly less logspam and errors seen by the clients.https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libinput/libei/-/releases/1.2.0
(DIR) Post #AclB627rCFmi9SttY0 by whot@fosstodon.org
2023-12-13T02:29:24Z
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Ho Ho Ho. What's 🎅 going to bring you? A new xserver and xwayland release because he also brought you two CVEs.https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2023-December/003435.html
(DIR) Post #Acn0SQ3qAzXRZoPhwG by whot@fosstodon.org
2023-12-14T03:06:45Z
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we should've renamed `/usr/bin/Xorg` to something like `/usr/bin/Xbaremetal` or something to cut down on the xorg vs Xorg vs X.Org confusion...
(DIR) Post #Acn0SRdKKXWCSA1YtE by whot@fosstodon.org
2023-12-14T03:54:46Z
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@Conan_Kudo It was Xfree86 and renamed to Xorg after the split. I don't know when the X symlink appeared first though. A quick git grep dates the Xorg binary name to at least 2005 when autotools was added. Forgive me for not spelunking further :)
(DIR) Post #Acn9gW9bDdnY7Bu9Nw by whot@fosstodon.org
2023-12-14T04:14:40Z
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A short post that may help clear up the confusion stemming from seemingly mixed-message headlines like "new Xwayland release", "Xorg is abandoned", "new X server patches"https://who-t.blogspot.com/2023/12/xorg-being-removed-what-does-this-mean.html
(DIR) Post #AidxqoyTdmrnAwCe6i by whot@fosstodon.org
2024-06-06T06:22:51Z
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A Wayland replacement for xsetwacom? No Way!Well, mostly, sort-of. Say hello to gsetwacom.https://who-t.blogspot.com/2024/06/goodbye-xsetwacom-hello-gsetwacom.html
(DIR) Post #Aie5kO51WIKBexhxrc by whot@fosstodon.org
2024-06-06T08:48:00Z
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@davidrevoy most of the credit for gsetwacom goes to you anyway, I had the thought for it while replying to your email.regarding the name... naming things is hard, doubly so because most people hear "tablet" and think of ipads. And "graphics tablet" is a bit of a mouthful. At least with wacom in the name it's immediately obvious what type of tablet, even though huion might feel left out.Meanwhile, I'm waiting for English to catch up to these problems and become a more sensible language.
(DIR) Post #AmeQhh5vi2JJJzrL2e by whot@fosstodon.org
2024-10-03T23:28:11Z
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For many years *every* user of a Huion/XP-Pen/... tablet needed to add an xorg.conf entry because we didn't match against all tablets in the xf86-input-wacom driver.Because configuration was available and easy, it was never reported upstream which means we never noticed and fixed it for everyone there.This is fixed (upstream) now that I actually noticed.And a fun side effect: if configuration weren't that easy we'd have had a bug report about this years ago.
(DIR) Post #AmeQhkZolN067YrkXo by whot@fosstodon.org
2024-10-03T23:29:09Z
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The point of this post is: it's not as simple as "more configuration is good" and "less configuration is bad". There's a balance, except any two people will have three opinions on where that balance lies.
(DIR) Post #Amk5yFNl43NQCt0fIG by whot@fosstodon.org
2024-10-06T21:46:56Z
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@davidrevoy a naive guess says this should work just like the expresskey remote and the default mappings look suspiciously similar to the inspiroy. Do you mind filing a bug against udev-hid-bpf with the hid-recorder output for each button? We might be able to remap this to button 1..x, add it to libwacom and then have the default button mapping interfaces work.
(DIR) Post #AmmMueYlbFyKfjx10a by whot@fosstodon.org
2024-10-08T00:06:11Z
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@davidrevoy I recommend reading my post on understanding HID first, no chance to understand this otherwise.https://who-t.blogspot.com/2018/12/understanding-hid-report-descriptors.htmlThe *code* is simple, but only if you understand all the magic that goes on behind the scenes :)As it happens, udev-hid-bpf also has a tutorial which may make things more or less confusing: https://libevdev.pages.freedesktop.org/udev-hid-bpf/tutorial.html
(DIR) Post #AoPbP8igBjjCC8yPnU by whot@fosstodon.org
2024-11-25T10:55:41Z
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The next version of xkeyboard-config will support the MS Copilot Key. Because nothing says AI is ready for prime time than XKB support for it.
(DIR) Post #ArV7iSVwqIQf4sk59E by whot@fosstodon.org
2025-02-25T23:48:31Z
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In case your most favourite newspaper hasn't reported on it yet: libinput now supports 3fg drag, will be in 1.28https://who-t.blogspot.com/2025/02/libinput-and-3-finger-dragging.htmlReporters these days, always distracted by less important stories...
(DIR) Post #AsNGLoJlo8P1nB9dce by whot@fosstodon.org
2025-03-24T04:50:33Z
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A few weeks back I started hacking on a libwacom implementation in Rust - it's creatively named tabletdb and now freshly pushed to cargo.Repository is here: https://github.com/whot/tabletdb/Contributions and feeback are welcome!
(DIR) Post #AsjRCUktejoKTfq7pw by whot@fosstodon.org
2025-04-04T01:22:42Z
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@davidrevoy fwiw, GNOME shows the tablet but lists it as unknown. And since the vast majority of unknown tablets are built-in ones it will default to that. That's actually the libwacom fallback behavior now.Adding a libwacom entry for the H610 makes that issue go away (and probably the plasma one too).On that note - @redstrate - KDE should probably do the same for unknown tablets.