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In short: Is X.org a dependency of Libinput?

Rephrased, can libinput work standalone?

The question is mostly about hacking around with some input devices. I'm trying to route USB/PS1/Bluetooth input through a headless raspberry pi. I want this to be as generic as possible, while keeping my installation as minimal as possible.

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According to the manpages:

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).
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  • So to answer my question: no, it doesn't need X?
    – J-Cake
    Oct 12, 2021 at 0:27
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    No it doesn't. You can look up dependencies on packages.ubuntu.com.
    – Nmath
    Oct 12, 2021 at 1:24
  • Perfect. Thanks so much
    – J-Cake
    Oct 12, 2021 at 3:05

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