1 2.. toctree:: 3 :maxdepth: 2 4 :hidden: 5 6 what-is-libinput 7 features 8 configuration 9 building 10 faqs 11 reporting-bugs 12 troubleshooting 13 contributing 14 development 15 API documentation <@HTTP_DOC_LINK@/api/> 16 17 18++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 19libinput 20++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 21 22libinput is a library that provides a full input stack for display servers 23and other applications that need to handle input devices provided by the 24kernel. 25 26libinput provides device detection, event handling and abstraction so 27minimize the amount of custom input code the user of libinput need to 28provide the common set of functionality that users expect. Input event 29processing includes scaling touch coordinates, generating 30relative pointer events from touchpads, pointer acceleration, etc. 31 32libinput is not used directly by applications. Think of it more as a device 33driver than an application library. See :ref:`what_is_libinput` for more details. 34 35-------------------- 36Users and Developers 37-------------------- 38 39Please use the side-bar to nagivate through the various documentation items. 40 41----------------- 42API documentation 43----------------- 44 45The API documentation is available here: 46 https://wayland.freedesktop.org/libinput/doc/latest/api/ 47 48.. note:: This documentation is generally only needed by authors of Wayland 49 compositors or other developers dealing with input events directly. 50 51------- 52License 53------- 54 55libinput is licensed under the MIT license 56 57.. code-block:: none 58 59 Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a 60 copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), 61 to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation 62 the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, 63 and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the 64 Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: [...] 65 66See the 67`COPYING <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libinput/libinput/tree/master/COPYING>`_ 68file for the full license information. 69 70..... 71About 72..... 73Documentation generated from |git_version| 74