querying current mouse state

[Martin Flöser]

Am 2017-08-10 01:45, schrieb René J. V.  Bertin:
> Martin Flöser wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
>> of the buttons, but just sends the press events. I'm pretty sure that
>> not even the kernel knows it, otherwise libinput would expose it.
> 
> It doesn't need to know it (and probably shouldn't because why would
> it). All it
> needs to know is how to read the information from the device when 
> needed ;)

Point is: if the kernel could read the information from the device, it 
would know it. I don't think that the kernel knows it, which means I 
don't think that the device driver has that.

> 
> Libinput is based on libevdev just like good old X11, no?

no idea whether it uses libevdev, but it's of course evdev.