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popularity
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maintenance
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Popularity

Small

GitHub Stars: 11
Forks: 0
Contributors: 20

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Release Date: Mar 17, 2024
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License

GPL-3.0

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Maintenance

Sustainable

Commit Frequency

Open Issues: 0
Open PR: 0
Last Release: 8 months ago
Last Commit: 8 months ago

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We found that python-uinput demonstrates a positive version release cadence with at least one new version released in the past 12 months.

In the past month we didn't find any pull request activity or change in issues status has been detected for the GitHub repository.

Community

Limited

Readme: Yes
Contributing.md: No
Code of Conduct: No
Contributors: 20
Funding: No

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Python Versions Compatibility: >=2.7

Age: 15 years
Latest Release: 8 months ago
Dependencies: N/A
Versions: 21
Maintainers: 2
Wheels: No

Readme

Python-uinput

Python-uinput is Python interface to Linux uinput kernel module which allows attaching userspace device drivers into kernel. In practice, Python-uinput makes it dead simple to create virtual joysticks, keyboards and mice for generating arbitrary input events programmatically.

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License
GPLv3+

Usage examples

Generate keyboard clicks

import uinput

with uinput.Device([uinput.KEY_E, uinput.KEY_H,
                    uinput.KEY_L, uinput.KEY_O]) as device:
    device.emit_click(uinput.KEY_H)
    device.emit_click(uinput.KEY_E)
    device.emit_click(uinput.KEY_L)
    device.emit_click(uinput.KEY_L)
    device.emit_click(uinput.KEY_O)

Move mouse cursor

import uinput

with uinput.Device([uinput.REL_X, uinput.REL_Y,
                    uinput.BTN_LEFT, uinput.BTN_RIGHT]) as device:
    for i in range(20):
        device.emit(uinput.REL_X, 5)
        device.emit(uinput.REL_Y, 5)

Generate keyboard combinations

import uinput

with uinput.Device([uinput.KEY_LEFTALT, uinput.KEY_TAB]) as device:
    device.emit_combo([uinput.KEY_LEFTALT, uinput.KEY_TAB])

See examples/ for other kind of example devices (keyboard, joystick).

Note that you must have the uinput kernel module loaded to use python-uinput. To load the module, run:

modprobe -i uinput

If you would like to have uinput to be loaded on every sytem boot, add uinput to /etc/modules.

How to install

Just run the following commands:

python setup.py build
python setup.py install

How to report bugs

The bug database is hosted in GitHub. If you have found a bug or have an improvement idea you want to share, please report it at <>. However, to avoid duplicate bug reports, before reporting, please check if similar or identical bug has already been reported. If so, you can still subscribe to the existing bug to track its progress.

How to contribute

In addition to reporting bugs and improvement suggestions, you are encouraged to contribute bug-fixes or features. The source code is maintained in Git and the main repository is hosted at GitHub, <>. The preferred way to contribute code is to clone the main Git repository and send a pull-request. Good old patches via email are also accepted.

How to copy

Python-uinput is free (libre) software and licensed under the terms of GNU Public License version 3 or later. In short, it means that you are free to copy, modify and redistribute this software as long as you place the derivative work under a compatible license. See COPYING for details.

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What is python-uinput?

Pythonic API to Linux uinput kernel module. Visit Snyk Advisor to see a full health score report for python-uinput, including popularity, security, maintenance & community analysis.

Is python-uinput popular?

The python package python-uinput receives a total of 3,223 weekly downloads. As such, python-uinput popularity was classified as small. Visit the popularity section on Snyk Advisor to see the full health analysis.

Is python-uinput well maintained?

We found indications that python-uinput maintenance is sustainable demonstrating some project activity. We saw a total of 20 open source contributors collaborating on the project. See the full package health analysis to learn more about the package maintenance status.

Is python-uinput safe to use?

The python package python-uinput was scanned for known vulnerabilities and missing license, and no issues were found. Thus the package was deemed as safe to use. See the full health analysis review.

Last updated on 16 November-2024, at 20:07 (UTC).

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Move mouse cursor

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