> There's a PKGBUILD in AUR of xinput, but I think it needs to be with > the other Xorg packages in extra, probably even in the "xorg" group. > > xinput is a utillity that can dynamically change different properties > of the X input devices like the ones that otherwise need to be > configured in the xorg.conf file or the HAL fdi file. For example, > enabling wheel emulation of a trackpoint. > > You can also use it to enable or disable input devices. Here's a text that explains about xinput properties, and how the xinput tool is used to work with them: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/InputDeviceProperties one of the ideas behind xinput properties is to replace the cstom SHM protocol used in the synaptics driver -- damjan