detecting tablet mode

Martin Flöser mgraesslin at kde.org
Thu Jan 18 18:43:34 UTC 2018


Am 2018-01-17 13:26, schrieb Marco Martin:
> On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 10:33 AM, Marco Martin <notmart at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>> Another thing that i think would be needed, is to detect if the tabet 
>> mode
>> switch is present at all on the hardware (my use case would be wether 
>> show
>> options related to that on the gui side) is that possible at all, in 
>> libinput
>> or otherwise? that would end up i guess exposed in the same dbus 
>> interface as
>> the tablet mode switch in KWin
> 
> A first prototype for this is at https://phabricator.kde.org/D9944
> tough i didn't yet find a correct way to wire it up down to 
> TabletModeManager

You can check how it is done for VirtualKeyboard which gets auto-enabled 
if there is no keyboard (see line 84).

Cheers
Martin


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