Hutterer: libinput - a common input stack for Wayland compositors and X.Org drivers

Here's a post from Peter Hutterer on why the X.Org input stack is a mess and the new "libinput" stack is needed. "It looks like a big happy family at first, but then you see that synaptics won't talk to evdev because of the tapping incident a couple of years back, mouse and keyboard have no idea what forks and knives are for, wacom is the hippy GPL cousin that doesn't even live in the same state and no-one quite knows why elographics keeps getting invited. The X server tries to keep the peace by just generally getting in the way of everyone so no-one can argue for too long. You step back, shrug apologetically and say 'well, that's just how these things are, right?'"

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