detecting tablet mode

[Marco Martin]

On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 6:24 PM, Martin Flöser <mgraesslin at kde.org> wrote:
> Am 2018-01-05 16:11, schrieb Marco Martin:
>>
>> debugging a bit what happens currently on my machine, i don't seem to
>> have any event device which libinput_device_switch_has_switch,
>> however, when i flip it, i do get an event, but oddly from the event
>> device called
>> "intel virtual button driver" and i get a key event of id 240.
>> do you think it's a kernel problem and can'tbe made work on our level?
>> I can also try to do the patch blindly, but how to test not having the
>> proper hardware support? (on a running kwin, i know autotests have a
>> fake libinput that injects events)
>> I wonder on how many devices thoise events will actually work as
>> intended...
>
>
> From libinput documentation it seems to only be Lenovo Yoga currently. And
> you probably need a rather new kernel, maybe even unreleased ones. This is a
> pretty brand new feature in libinput and I don't think it's widely exposed.
>
> Best ask Peter Hutterer, he will also be able to help you get your device
> supported so that we have it for everyone. I expect this will be a great
> crowd effort which should be doable. If we have the infrastructure and easy
> way to test/debug, we should be able to get some users to help there.

is there also a mailinglist, either libinput or kernel related where
this things are being
discussed?

also, would it be possible with something like its autotests, to have
a tiny root app
that injects a fake event to have a good manual tests that can be ran
on a running sessions?
--
Marco Martin