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Provide user config for Xorg

The manual of libinput provides two ways for users to adjust their input devices settings:

  1. Editing /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/99-libinput-custom-config.conf: but this requires root access.
  2. Using xinput: which is the common answer given to end users (ubuntu, arch wiki), and most users add it to $XINITRC.

However, the manual mentions:

Changes performed by xinput do not persist across device hotplugs. xinput is considered a debugging and testing tool only and should not be used for permanent configurations.

Then I think the clean solution to provide "permanent configurations" is to make users able to adjust their device preferences within directories like $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/X11/xinput.conf.

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