This package provides Go language bindings to the generic input event
interface in Linux. The evdev interface serves the purpose of
passing events generated in the kernel directly to userspace through
character devices that are typically located in /dev/input/.
The project is just a fork of https://github.com/gvalkov/golang-evdev with merges of useful changes that made in other forks. The development of the original project was stalled and I decided to move the code to my own repo and support it for my projects.
My great thanks to Georgi Valkov for the development of the library and support of it for the years!
API docs at https://godocs.io/github.com/grafov/evdev
Check basic usage example: example_test.go
The excerpt from libevdev docs below.
kernel → libevdev → evtest
For X.Org input modules, the stack would look like this:
kernel → libevdev → xf86-input-evdev → X server → X client
For Weston/Wayland, the stack would look like this:
kernel → libevdev → Weston → Wayland client
libevdev does not have knowledge of X clients or Wayland clients, it is too low in the stack.
Under BSD 3-clause license. See LICENSE.txt.