Lib.rs

Easy to use uinput wrapper for Rust.

Allows you to send keyboard and mouse events by creating a virtual device in Linux.

uinput is a basic Linux library, so this works on any distro and on X11 or Wayland.

High-resolution events are sent for the mouse wheel, allowing smoother scrolling and better precision.

Lib is safe by design, resources are released automatically when VirtualDevice's destructor is called. Dependencies are up-to-date in contrast to other uinput libs for Rust.

Installation

To use it without sudo add the current user to input group (replace user with your username):

sudo usermod -a -G input user
sudo reboot

Libraries required

On Ubuntu and Debian:

sudo apt install libudev-dev libevdev-dev libhidapi-dev

Add to Cargo.toml

mouse-keyboard-input = "0.3.0"

To use the latest development version:

mouse-keyboard-input = { git = "https://github.com/positiveway/mouse-keyboard-input", branch = "main" }

How to use

Functions

click(button_or_key) - click mouse button or type a key
press(button_or_key)
release(button_or_key)

move_mouse(x, y)

scroll_vertical(value)
scroll_horizontal(value)

List of buttons

Mouse

BTN_LEFT - left mouse button
BTN_RIGHT - right mouse button
BTN_MIDDLE - middle mouse button

Keyboard

Key codes can be found in /src/key_codes.rs

Example:

KEY_A
KEY_LEFTSHIFT
KEY_LEFTMETA (Meta means Windows button on Linux)

Code examples

Mouse

extern crate mouse_keyboard_input;

use mouse_keyboard_input::VirtualDevice;
use mouse_keyboard_input::key_codes::*;
use std::thread;
use std::time::Duration;

fn main() {
    let mut device = VirtualDevice::new();

    for _ in 1..5 {
        thread::sleep(Duration::from_secs(1));

        // scroll vertically by 100
        device.scroll_vertical(100).unwrap();
        // move cursor vertically the from current position by 50
        device.move_mouse(50, 50).unwrap();
        //click the left mouse button
        device.click(BTN_LEFT).unwrap();
    }
}

Keyboard

extern crate mouse_keyboard_input;

use mouse_keyboard_input::VirtualDevice;
use mouse_keyboard_input::key_codes::*;
use std::thread;
use std::time::Duration;

fn main() {
    let mut device = VirtualDevice::new();

    thread::sleep(Duration::from_secs(2));

    // type hello
    for key in [KEY_H, KEY_E, KEY_L, KEY_L, KEY_O] {
        device.click(key).unwrap();
    }
}

Sending events from multiple threads is also supported. See /examples/channels.rs

Contributors

Based on github.com/meh/rust-uinput