I’m starting to dig into the evdev api on linux for the purpose of playing around with uinput emulation. I noticed that between a joystick and a touch pad, there are different button/key event codes to distinguish between joypad button presses and mouse clicks. But both devices have event codes for ABS_…
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OSError: [Errno 19] Failed to open the uinput device: No such device
I am pretty new to raspberry and Linux. I am trying to run basic example of python library uinput on Raspbian (r Pi 3 B) with following code: I get the error: Traceback (most recent call last): File “/home/pi/Desktop/t1.py”, line 7, in uinput.REL_Y, File “/home/pi/.local/lib/python3.5/site-p…
Creating Macros With Python interfacing with Libinput
I’m running Fedora 22; and I’m trying to create a very simple keyboard macro script with uinput that will work across display servers (and in console). Following this post I figured out how to do this successfully in console and with evdev; However I also want to be able to do this through libinpu…
How to get name (path) of uinput created device
I have successfully set up a small program to create a uinput device which I plan to use to automate testing of an application receiving keyboard input events. I have followed both tutorials as found in this very nice answer. When my program creates the uinput device by calling ioctl(fd, UI_DEV_CREATE) a new …
linux uinput: simple example?
I’m having some problems getting both sides of code using uinput working. Based on Getting started with uinput: the user level input subsystem[dead link; archived] I put together the following writer (minus error handling): That seems to work, at least the full input_event structure seems to be written.…