This package provides bindings to the generic input event interface in Linux. The evdev interface serves the purpose of passing events generated in the kernel directly to userspace through character devices that are typically located in /dev/input/.

This package also comes with bindings to uinput, the userspace input subsystem. Uinput allows userspace programs to create and handle input devices that can inject events directly into the input subsystem.

Please refer to the :doc:`tutorial <tutorial>` and the :doc:`apidoc <apidoc>` for usage information.

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   tutorial
   install
   apidoc
   changelog

• python-uinput
• ruby-evdev
• evdev (ctypes)

Package :mod:`evdev` is released under the terms of the Revised BSD License.

• Use libudev to find the uinput device node as well as the other input devices. Their locations are currently assumed to be /dev/uinput and /dev/input/*.
• More tests.
• Better uinput support (setting device capabilities as in python-uinput)
• Expose more input subsystem functionality (EVIOCSKEYCODE, EVIOCGREP etc)
• Figure out if using linux/input.h and other kernel headers in your userspace program binds it to the GPL2.

• :ref:`genindex`
• :ref:`modindex`
• :ref:`search`