evdev-rs 0.4.0

Bindings to libevdev for interacting with evdev devices. It moves the common tasks when dealing with evdev devices into a library and provides a library interface to the callers, thus avoiding erroneous ioctls, etc.

evdev-rs

A Rust wrapper for libevdev

# Cargo.toml
[dependencies]
evdev-rs = "0.3.1"

Why a libevdev wrapper?

The evdev protocol is simple, but quirky, with a couple of behaviors that are non-obvious. libevdev transparently handles some of those quirks.

The evdev crate on [1] is an implementation of evdev in Rust. Nothing wrong with that, but it will miss out on any more complex handling that libevdev provides.

[1] https://github.com/cmr/evdev/blob/master/src/lib.rs

Development

src/enums.rs can be generated by running ./tools/make-enums.sh.