I want to provide a dbus service in KWin to export the state. Apps cannot use libinput directly, one needs root for that.
Cheers Martin Am 4. Januar 2018 23:22:43 MEZ schrieb Marco Martin <notm...@gmail.com>: >Hi all, >one thing i wanted to look into, is to detect when a trasformable >laptop goes >in tablet mode from applications, so that plasmashell and kirigami apps >can >adapt themselves and do things(tm) >KWin does that (on wayland) already, and i see it uses libinput for >that, like >i seem to evince from this recent commit (and the logic when to show >the on >screen keyboard) >https://cgit.kde.org/kwin.git/commit/? >id=ac2f41c86d3b5b13ba3655e6c2f17f59a4cb7f01 > >would a normal application use libinput too or is something reserved to >the >compositor? >what would be the right way(tm) there? a dbus signal from KWin?