Thanks for sending this reminder out, Peter, I meant to do this but completely forgot. Will reply with info from a Thinkpad T450s tomorrow.
On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 10:20 PM, Peter Hutterer <peter.hutte...@who-t.net> wrote: > [Disclaimer: sorry if you've seen this one before, I posted it to desktop@ > but I only got one recording. That's not quite enough to call it a dataset, > let alone do any analysis on it. Please do consider the minimal effort > required on your behalf.] > > Are you using a touchpad frequently during the day? Then please read on, I > need > some touchpad usage data and it'll only take you 5 minutes to run the > commands > below to gather the data. > > If you're technical enough, here's the TLDR: > in screen, run sudo evemu-record > touchpad-recording.evemu, select your > touchpad device and at the end of the day upload a compressed tarball > somewhere > and send me the link off-list. thanks. > > Otherwise, the steps one-by-one: > > Open a a terminal now, then install evemu: > $> sudo dnf install -y evemu screen > > Then start screen: > $> screen -S evemu > > Now you're inside screen and you can start the recording > $> sudo evemu-record > $HOME/touchpad-recording.evemu > > One device will be a touchpad, named "SynPS/2 Synaptics Touchpad" or some > other > name that should be identifiable. If you're on a late model Dell, it may be > named DLL0234 or something. Once you selected the device, evemu will start > recording. > > Then hit Ctrl+a, then d to detach screen and return to the terminal. > > Check that the recording works: > $> tail -f $HOME/touchpad-recording.evemu > > Whenever you touch the touchpad, you should see events filling up the > screen > now. If so, everything is working. Hit Ctrl+C to quit the 'tail' command. > You > can close the terminal now. > > The screen session will now sit in the background, recording all your > touchpad > events into that file. At the end of the day: > > First, open a terminal and restore the screen session: > $> screen -r evemu > > Hit Ctrl+C to interrupt the evemu-record process, then type exit to quit > screen. Compress it first so it reduces in size a bit: > > $> gzip $HOME/touchpad-recording.evemu > > Now upload the newly created $HOME/touchpad-recording.evemu.gz file > somewhere > and send me a off-list email with the link so I can grab it. > > Thanks heaps. > > As for "why" do I need this? I need it to analyse touchpad motion data to > get > an idea of what range of finger motion speed is common and expected during > normal usage. > > Cheers, > Peter > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org >
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