libinput VS nix-home-manager

Compare libinput vs nix-home-manager and see what are their differences.

libinput

Input device management and event handling library **MIRROR ONLY** (by wayland-project)
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0.0 7.8
over 1 year ago 28 days ago
C Nix
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libinput

Posts with mentions or reviews of libinput. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-04-11.
  • My friend needs help
    1 project | /r/Fedora | 21 Dec 2022
    $> git clone https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libinput/libinput $> cd libinput $> meson --prefix=/usr builddir/ $> ninja -C builddir/ $> sudo ninja -C builddir/ install
  • Is there a way to increase scroll speed?
    2 projects | /r/kde | 11 Apr 2022
  • Debouncing the left mouse click
    1 project | /r/linuxquestions | 28 Oct 2021
    If you're using libinput then (probably, though I'm not 100% sure) you can fix it with libinput "quirks". You should ask these guys. They helped me once with my mouse.
  • Touchpad bug only on Fedora, other distros working fine
    1 project | /r/Fedora | 24 Oct 2021
    You can report libinput bugs here
  • The Framework Laptop
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Feb 2021
    > That's my personal requirement. On a personal laptop I always use the trackpad so I want it to be the best.

    100%. On my personal devices I don't want to compromise on trackpad or keyboards (I like that apple went back on the butterfly keyboards).

    The rest of my comment is just my personal experience so take it with a grain of salt. I've found the trackpad experience on the XPS and Thinkpad X1 laptops to be excellent under linux. The libinput [1] drivers seem to work really well and the gesture support seems nice too. What I miss from MacBook's touchpad is force-touch. Not having to worry about which part of the touchpad i'm pressing was really nice when I used a macbook.

    I'm contemplating purchasing a m1 macbook air as my next laptop, but I'm also not sure i'd be willing to give up on being able to run linux natively on a laptop I buy with my own money.

    [1] https://github.com/wayland-project/libinput

nix-home-manager

Posts with mentions or reviews of nix-home-manager. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-24.
  • The Curse of NixOS
    35 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Jan 2022
    I'd recommend LUKS. NixOS has a guide in the wiki but if you're looking for an example, see my nix readme. Might have a typo or two but it's 99 percent there

    https://github.com/NelsonJeppesen/nix-lifestyle#luks-encrypt...

  • NixOS on Framework Laptop
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Oct 2021
    Not exactly the same but my journey started with nix home-manager on MacOS. Spent time getting it working how I wanted. I enjoyed it so much I replaced my Mac with nixos soon after

    MacOS has second tier support to Linux. I'm sure PopOS will work well

    https://github.com/NelsonJeppesen/nix-lifestyle/tree/main/ni...

  • Raspberry Pi config for all things Internet
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Sep 2021
  • Ask HN: What Are You Working On?
    100 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Jan 2021
    Spend the week to learn and build my Nix[OS] environments for full time use. Nix on my Macbook and NixOS on my Asus G14

    https://github.com/NelsonJeppesen/nix-home-manager

What are some alternatives?

When comparing libinput and nix-home-manager you can also consider the following projects:

Fusuma - Multitouch gestures with libinput driver on Linux

rtw89 - Driver for Realtek 8852AE, an 802.11ax device

HapticKey - A simple utility application to trigger haptic feedback when tapping Touch Bar.

digga - A flake utility library to craft shell-, home-, and hosts- environments.

thinkeys - Split ortholinear custom replacement keyboard with TrackPoint for ThinkPad laptops. [Moved to: https://github.com/moduloindustries/thinkeys]

nickel - Better configuration for less

pentadactyl - Pentadactyl for Pale Moon (community maintained)

ctl - My variant of the C Template Library

pineapple60 - first ergonomic keyboard with Trackpoint

libinput - A fork of libinput that incubates solutions to user-voted problems with Linux touchpads, and prepares pull requests to be submitted to the official libinput project.

nixos-hardware - A collection of NixOS modules covering hardware quirks.

nixpkgs - Nix Packages collection & NixOS