libinput-debug-tablet(1)

libinput-debug-tablet1

Debug and visualize tablet axes

Usage

libinput debug-tablet [--help] [options] [/dev/input/event0]

Overview

The libinput debug-tablet tool debugs the values of the various axes on a tablet. This is an interactive tool. When executed, the tool will prompt the user to interact with the tablet and display the current value on each available axis.

This is a debugging tool only, its output may change at any time. Do not rely on the output.

This tool usually needs to be run as root to have access to the /dev/input/eventX nodes.

Options

If a device node is given, this tool opens that device node. Otherwise, this tool searches for the first node that looks like a tablet and uses that node.

--help

Print help

Events shown by this tool may not correspond to the events seen by a different user of libinput. This tool initializes a separate context.

Libinput

Part of the libinput(1) suite

Releases

Unchanged in 4 releases since Debian 11 (Bullseye).

  1. 11–Arch

From libinput-tools 1.32.0-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.