TS_UINPUT(1)

💖 TS_UINPUT(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the tslib corner of the manual pages, this one's all about ts_uinput 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

ts_uinput — a daemon program that makes a tslib-filtered and calibrated input event device, and honestly? it eats 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

ts_uinput [OPTION]

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

so here's the vibe: ts_uinput is your alternative to using tslib's API directly when what you actually want is filtered + calibrated touch screen input. it uses Linux's uinput system to spin up an input event device that you can just... use, in your environment, no extra wiring 🫶 and because it calls ts_read_mt(), it supports single touch and multi touch. versatile queen ✨

• -d, --daemonize — start ts_uinput as a daemon and then dip, it returns. before it bounces, the sysfs input device name of the brand-new device gets printed to stdout. and if you also picked --verbose, then the /dev/input/eventX path to the device node gets printed too 👑
• -v, --verbose — spills debug info to stdout and stderr. heads up though: only works if --daemonize is not chosen. but if you use it together with --daemonize, the path to the created input event device node /dev/input/eventX is printed before the program forks and returns 🔥
• -n, --name — sets the name of your new input event device. default: ts_uinput. name her whatever you want, she's yours 💖
• -i, --idev — explicitly picks the original input event device for tslib to use. default: whatever the environment variable TSLIB_TSDEVICE says. main character selection energy ⭐
• -f, --fbdev — explicitly picks the framebuffer device to use. default: whatever the environment variable TSLIB_FBDEVICE says 🦋
• -s, --slots — explicitly sets how many concurrent touch contacts are supported. ngl you might only need this if the original input device doesn't report it itself 🙈
• -b, --nofb — read the screen resolution values from the input device instead of from the framebuffer device. plot twist 🌈

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

ts.conf (5), ts_calibrate (1), ts_test (1) — go read those too bestie, iykyk 💜

and that's the whole page, no cap. this one lives in the tslib manual, section 1, and it's signed off as TS_UINPUT(1) — so you know exactly where to find it again when you forget everything i just said 😭💀 ily, go calibrate something 🎀✨