[release-notes] libinput

Pete Travis immanetize at fedoraproject.org
Thu Apr 9 05:39:05 UTC 2015


commit 30c756a00977246ff222eaef903be25a69ea7826
Author: Pete Travis <immanetize at fedoraproject.org>
Date:   Wed Apr 8 23:39:58 2015 -0600

    libinput

 en-US/Desktop.xml |   21 +++++++++++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/en-US/Desktop.xml b/en-US/Desktop.xml
index 7997217..0fde17f 100644
--- a/en-US/Desktop.xml
+++ b/en-US/Desktop.xml
@@ -16,5 +16,26 @@
   <section id="desktop-MATE">
   	<title>MATE</title>
   </section>
+  <section id="desktop-libinput">
+    <title>Libinput used for input devices</title>
+    <para>
+      Input devices in supporting environments, notably GNOME with Fedora Workstation and KDE, will use a new driver, <package>libinput</package>. The new driver replaces a variety of drivers, such as synaptics, enabling more consistent behavior across a variety of devices.
+    </para>
+    <para>
+      libinput improves support for multi-touch devices and software emulated buttons. The driver is implemented directly in wayland sessions, and in X sessions through the <package>xorg-x11-drv-libinput</package> wrapper.
+    </para>
+    <para>
+      Input devices will be configurable through GNOME Settings, KDE System Settings, xfce-settings, or xinput.  Some niche features are not available via libinput, but the previous behavior can be restored by removing the <package>xorg-x11-drv-libinput</package> package, and ensuring the appropriate x11 driver packages, probably <package>x11-drv-synaptics</package> or <package>xorg-x11-drv-evdev</package>, are installed.
+    </para>
+    <para>
+      Note that <package>xorg-x11-drv-libinput</package> is only installed by default on new Fedora 22 installations, if you're upgrading and you want to use the new features provided by libinput, you can install the package manually:
+    </para>
+    <screen>
+      <prompt>#</prompt> <command>dnf install xorg-x11-drv-libinput</command>
+    </screen>
+    <para>
+      To learn about the features and behavior of libinput, refer to <command>man libinput</command> or <ulink url=" http://wayland.freedesktop.org/libinput/doc/latest/pages.html" />
+    </para>
+  </section>
 </section>
 


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