libinput(1)

libinput1

Tool to interface with libinput

Usage

libinput [{--help | --version}] <command> [<args>]

Overview

libinput is a library to handle input devices and provides device detection and input device event processing for most Wayland compositors and the X.Org xf86-input-libinput driver.

The libinput tools are a set of tools to debug, interface with and analyze data for libinput. These tools create libinput contexts separate from that of the compositor/X server and cannot change settings in a running session. See section COMMANDS for a list of available commands.

libinput's API documentation and details on features and various high-level concepts are available online at https://wayland.freedesktop.org/libinput/doc/latest/

The man page for the X.Org xf86-input-libinput driver is libinput(4).

Options

--help

Print help and exit

--version

Print the version and exit

Commands

libinput-debug-events(1)

Print all events as seen by libinput

libinput-debug-gui(1)

Show a GUI to visualize libinput's events

libinput-debug-tablet(1)

A commandline tool to debug tablet axis values

libinput-list-devices(1)

List all devices recognized by libinput

libinput-list-kernel-devices(1)

List all kernel devices available on this system

libinput-measure(1)

Measure various properties of devices

libinput-record(1)

Record the events from a device

libinput-replay(1)

Replay the events from a device

libinput-analyze(1)

Analyze events from a device

libinput-test(1)

Test libinput itself.

Libinput

Part of the libinput(1) suite

Releases

5 releases since Debian 10 (Buster); the text changed 4 times.

  1. 10
  2. 11
  3. 12
  4. 13
  5. Arch

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