Vigilem::Evdev

Provides DOM conversion and ruby binding for evdev

$ gem install vigilem-evdev
(for Bundler see known issues)

  require 'vigilem/evdev/dom'
  
  adapter = Vigilem::Evdev::DOM::Adapter.new
  
  puts adapter.read_one.inspect

• Linux kernels 3.15, 3.2.0
• ruby 2.0.0 x64 Linux mri
• ruby 2.0.0 x32 Linux mri

In order to run this you will need permission to read from /dev/input/* Rather than rewrite the wheel, please see https://github.com/jteeuwen/evdev/blob/master/README.md#permissions which has a great explanation

• due to the above:
  • rvm: comes with sudo
  • rbenv: install https://github.com/dcarley/rbenv-sudo

Adding just gem 'vigilem-evdev' is different than gem install vigilem-evdev In both cases the vigilem-evdev gem installs it's input_system dependencies on install, however since bundler tracks it's installed gems the dynamically installed gems get added to the $GEM_HOME still, but not added to Gemfile.lock. So in order exactly model production the 'vigilem-x11' needs to be added

gem 'vigilem-evdev'
gem 'vigilem-x11'

@see focus_context_filter.rb and input_system_handler.rb

• why does vigilem-evdev require vigilem-x11-stat?:
  • This is convenience for gnome-terminal so that it:
    • doesn't read the keyboard when the window doesn't have focus
    • this matches how win32 does things and makes it more cross platform

• 1.0.0:
  • @todo's, bug fixes, KeyMap load performance
  • Mac/Bsd
  • mouse
  • jettison 'linux-system' items into own gem
  • less brittle tests
• next
  • complete ffi items