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rayray

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Registered: 2025-07-11

Posts: 12

libinput command not found, packages are installed

I am having a strange issue.

Running libinput, sudo or not returns that the command is not found. xinput is working.

Using pacman query I have verified that I have libinput 1.30.1-1 installed.

Here is a snippet of my Xorg log, in it it shows that my keyboard is using libinput as it's input driver. It's also reporting "UnloadModule: "libinput"" which I am unsure of

  [6231.486] (II) config/udev: removing device Logitech USB Keyboard
[  6231.486] (**) Option "fd" "38"
[  6231.486] (II) event6  - Logitech USB Keyboard: device removed
[  6231.486] (II) UnloadModule: "libinput"
[  6231.486] (II) systemd-logind: releasing fd for 13:70
[  6231.486] (II) config/udev: Adding input device Logitech USB Keyboard (/dev/input/event6)
[  6231.486] (**) Logitech USB Keyboard: Applying InputClass "evdev keyboard catchall"
[  6231.486] (**) Logitech USB Keyboard: Applying InputClass "libinput keyboard catchall"
[  6231.486] (II) Using input driver 'libinput' for 'Logitech USB Keyboard'
[  6231.486] (II) systemd-logind: got fd for /dev/input/event6 13:70 fd 38 paused 0
[  6231.486] (**) Logitech USB Keyboard: always reports core events
[  6231.486] (**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/event6"
[  6231.487] (II) event6  - Logitech USB Keyboard: is tagged by udev as: Keyboard
[  6231.487] (II) event6  - Logitech USB Keyboard: device is a keyboard
[  6231.487] (II) event6  - Logitech USB Keyboard: device removed
[  6231.487] (**) Option "config_info" "udev:/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.1/0000:05:00.0/0000:06:0c.0/0000:0d:00.0/usb1/1-5/1-5:1.0/0003:046D:C31C.0007/input/input7/event6"
[  6231.487] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Logitech USB Keyboard" (type: KEYBOARD, id 11)
[  6231.487] (II) event6  - Logitech USB Keyboard: is tagged by udev as: Keyboard
[  6231.487] (II) event6  - Logitech USB Keyboard: device is a keyboard

astralc

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Registered: 2022-09-17

Posts: 114

Re: libinput command not found, packages are installed

why you assume libinput have executable?
You can always check what files package installed with

pacman -Ql libinput

Edit: there is executable in libinput-tools

Last edited by astralc (Yesterday 17:20:34)

rayray

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Registered: 2025-07-11

Posts: 12

Re: libinput command not found, packages are installed

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Libinput

Sections 1 and 2.1 show that with the libinput and xf86-input-libinput the command should be working. I should have specified that I also have xf86-input-libinput package installed and up to date

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: libinput command not found, packages are installed

This was changed recently (November last year) and apparently the wiki not relevantly updated -- let me fix that.

Last edited by V1del (Yesterday 19:05:39)