Using keyboard and mouse on Linux with fbdev

[aguahombre]

Is it possible to use mouse and keyboard input with Linux framebuffer fbdev?

I have a working app using fbdev and touch on a Raspberry PI 3A running on Raspbian but no keyboard or mouse input.
The same app is working on the Raspberry PI desktop with touch, keyboard and mouse.

[kekekeks]

Planned, but not implemented yet

[viniciusverasdossantos]

I also need. Congratulations on the project!

[dinonovak]

any update if support has been added or is in plan?

[dinonovak]

@aguahombre Can you please advise how did you manage to enable touchscreen under framebuffer?
I have 5inch hdmi display with xpt2046 touch controller, but I do not know how to enable touch

[aguahombre]

@dinonovak Last time I looked, the Linux framebuffer was not well supported and I was advised by kekekeks (I think) to run my app in kiosk mode under X. I found this works quite well.

[Drise13]

I'm looking to get keyboard events into the Avalonia ControlCatalog sample for a linux framebuffer device (BeagleBoneBlack). I have touch inputs working (through libts i think) and output to the framebuffer using --fbdev. I can't seem to get usb keyboard events into the application however, even though it looks like I have input focus captured on a textbox.

Is there any updates to capturing keyboard events while running a framebuffer output?

[masterworgen]

Planned, but not implemented yet

It's been 3 years, where is the keyboard?

[kekekeks]

Still planned.
And will stay planned if people will be expressing that kind of attitude, BTW.

[Oaz]

In case anyone landing here is interested, I've got an experimental extended LibInputBackend with keyboard handling.
It works for basic use cases but is clearly not production ready.