[libinput] How I get extra touch events using libinput?

[Peter Hutterer]

On Tue, Jan 05, 2016 at 05:01:33PM +0900, ������ wrote:
> Hello, guys.
> I have a query regarding linux MT protocol event handling in libinput side.
> I wanted to get the extra events such as ABS_MT_TOUCH_MAJOR,
> ABS_MT_PRESSURE as an event of libinput,
> but I found that libinput doesn't handle those events.
> 
> Thus I'd like to know whether there is any plan regarding ABS_MT_XXX event
> handling in libinput side.
> If there are no plan to support those events, how can I handling those
> events?

correct, there is currently no handling of these events, but Andreas Pokorny
has a number of patches to add extra axes for touch events. I think this one
was the last version:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2015-November/025415.html
and the comments:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2015-November/025687.html

Cheers,
   Peter