My output from the xinput would be as follows: For example, I could create one with the command 'xinput create-master mouse'. The name is up to you, but try to keep it simple. To create a new master device you enter the following command: 'xinput create-master name'. To accomplish this trick, you need another master device. Each slave device under the master device controls that master device. Why not use two mice? Well, they both control the same cursor, but what if there were two cursors? That is the trick. You wanted to play two players, but each person wants to use the mouse. Suppose you had a game which used the mouse for input. To make changes permanent, add the commands in a BASH script to execute at startup. When the system is restarted, all devices are enabled as they were.
Keep in mind that all changes are not permanent. NOTE: Do not turn off your keyboard unless you have a second keyboard to attach to the system. To turn off a device, I use '0' and to turn on a device I use '1'. If I need to enable the device, I perform the same command, but change the last '0' at the end to a '1'. As you can see from the above output from the xinput command, the touchpad ID is 11. The command for my system would be 'xinput set-prop 11 "Device Enabled" 0'. The same can be done for the touchpad, so I do not have to worry about it when typing. I can disable the keyboard with the command 'xinput set-prop 10 "Device Enabled" 0'. The listing of AT Translated Set 2 keyboard is the laptop keyboard. Each master device will have a XTEST keyboard and XTEST pointer associated with it. The first is the Virtual core XTEST keyboard which is similar to the Virtual core XTEST pointer. The mouse is one of two input pointer devices which is considered a slave to the Virtual core pointer.Īfter the Virtual core pointer, you see Virtual core keyboard followed by six slave devices. For example, you can see the Logitech Optical USB Mouse listed as a slave pointer in the above list of my devices. The slave devices are the physical hardware devices which controls the master devices. The master keyboard device is the cursor depicting where letters will appear, such as in a word processor. For the master pointer device, it is the arrow cursor which corresponds to the pointing device, mouse or touchpad. The master devices are what appear in X Windows.
The first section shows the Virtual core pointer which are the mice. The output from the command should display a list of input devices. NOTE: You can also just type xinput with no options since -list is the default option. To get a list of the various input devices, mice and keyboards, we use the following command in a Terminal: It may be necessary to be able to disable and enable a touchpad or other input device. Sometimes the option exists, but does not work properly. Sometimes, there is an option to 'disable touchpad as you type' which works. I can add a USB mouse and disable the touchpad so I do not accidentally touch it and cause the cursor to do things I do not want it to do. Personally, I have a laptop with a touchpad that I do not like at all. For example, if you have a laptop with a keyboard and you add another in the USB port, you want to be sure you disabled the proper keyboard. NOTE: For systems with multiple input devices, be sure that if one of the devices is to be disabled that it is the correct one.
#Xinput test setting serial#
Another keyboard and/or mouse can be added using the Universal Serial Bus (USB). For example, on a laptop there is a keyboard and usually a touchpad or some such device to control the mouse. It is possible to have multiple mice and keyboards on a system. The core devices for Xinput are the mouse and keyboard. The Xinput extension, libXi, controls input from the mouse and keyboard as well as other input devices which may not be common.
#Xinput test setting windows#
X Windows is made up of many components which are managed to support the GUI. X Windows is also referred to as X11, X-Windows and X. The display manager of Linux systems is X Windows.
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