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HiImTye

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From: Halifax, NS, Canada

Registered: 2012-05-09

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[Solved] QJoypad not handling directional inputs

both my GoogleFu and ArchForumsFu have failed me on this. when I use QJoypad in Cinnamon, I'm able to remap all inputs in QJoyPad, however, when I use i3wm (I haven't tried others, but I assume there is others), QJoyPad handles the other buttons, but neither of the directional inputs, be it the left stick, nor the left directional pad. that is to say, that both directional inputs function as their proper directions, rather than the keys that I've reassigned them to.
edit: in QJoyPad's preferences panel, the directional inputs are properly handled, just not in other apps

I was unable to locate any similar issues or troubleshooting tips on Google, or the Arch forums, including on QJoyPad's troubleshooting section.

I use xpad and uinput (disabling uinput had no effect). I'm at a loss (how do you troubleshoot something that's working?). any ideas?

this issue seems to have cleared itself up by changing profiles in QJoypad. I was messing around with it and testing out mapping the mouse axis to the left pad, and realized that if I was able to then the issue was cleared. changing profiles seemed to have fixed it (I changed the profile to my test profile directly before testing out the mouse axis)

Last edited by HiImTye (2017-07-22 06:14:46)