libinput: Rotation Angle option.

[sonjiku]

Libinput has an option where you can change the rotation angle for an input method. Can be viewed here and here.

Option "RotationAngle" "float"
Sets the rotation angle of the device to the given angle, in degrees clockwise. The angle must be between 0.0 (inclusive) and 360.0 (exclusive).

My mouse is not functioning as expected and it's movement is inverted. If this option was implemented in sway I wouldn't have to be searching for a fix for 2 days and could have just rotated it 180deg in 2 mins.

[emersion]

This is already implemented with input … rotation_angle ….

[sonjiku]

Ok, so I updated my config to look like this:

# Mouse settings
input type:pointer {
    accel_profile "flat"
    pointer_accel "0.0"
    natural_scroll disabled
    rotation_angle 180.0
}

And when I restarted sway, I got this error:

Error on line 17 (/home/user/.config/sway/config.d/40-input.conf) 'rotation_angle 180.0': Unkown/invalid command 'rotation_angle'

Also the man page for sway-input doesn't reference that option.

Running sway -v gets me this output:

sway version 1.8.1

@emersion

[emersion]

Weird, the code is here: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/blob/bbabb9aae8d7b7771d02489b6f20301cf1c090c9/sway/commands/input/rotation_angle.c

[emersion]

Ah, probably because this commit hasn't been released yet: efd83cb

[sonjiku]

Yes, I noticed the code and found it weird, so I assumed the code was written, and then someone probably forgot to implement it in the release.

[sonjiku]

Since this isn't resolved, shouldn't this issue be open?

[emersion]

This is resolved. Nobody forgot anything, it's just that there hasn't been a new Sway release since this commit was merged.

[sonjiku]

Ok, so should I expect a new release soon? I don't wanna nag, but I just wanna know if I should get a new mouse or not.