LIBEVDEV(3)

💖 LIBEVDEV(3) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the libevdev page, straight out of the Library Functions Manual ✨ (section 3, we're fancy like that). it's a wrapper library for evdev devices and it's about to be your new obsession 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

libevdev — a wrapper library for evdev devices 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <libevdev/libevdev.h>

int libevdev_new_from_fd (int fd, struct libevdev **device)

void libevdev_free (struct libevdev *device)

like, that's the whole vibe check right there. two functions, zero drama 💜

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so libevdev is a wrapper library for evdev devices. what that means, bestie, is that it takes all the common tasks you'd be doing whenever you're dealing with evdev devices, and it moves them into a library — and then it hands you a nice, clean library interface to call instead of making you do it yourself 😌✨

the whole point? avoiding erroneous ioctls, etc. like, the library is out here catching those mistakes before they happen so you don't have to be the main character of a bug report 🙈 iconic behaviour, honestly.

important heads-up, no cap: this man page is a placeholder only. it's not the full tea ☕ the documentation for this version of libevdev lives over here:

http://www.freedesktop.org/software/libevdev/doc/1.13.7/

go read that one for the real real, iykyk 🔥

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👑 LICENSE 👑

libevdev is licensed under the MIT license. periodt 💅

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that's the whole page, bestie — short, sweet, and honestly it's giving placeholder energy but we ate anyway 🎀🦋✨

signing off from the libevdev 1.13.7 release, living in the LIBEVDEV(3) section of your manual forever 💖 bye pookie 🫶