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This is my continuation of effort to improve stylus support in flutter.
On linux flutter can detect stylus input type, but have missing information like rotation and pressure. In this pr, I add these.
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Tested on Fedora Linux 44, KDE Plasma with Wayland with an Wacom Stylus (same as in the windows stylus support pr)
(orientation isn't supported by my stylus, i tested it on other apps so maybe anyone other can test it).
Tested this pr on my flutter input demo: https://github.com/CodeDoctorDE/flutter-input-demo/tree/ad61c7d6f5011594a90cbb2b9840904144f877b5 (need to run flutter create . --platforms linux).

Related issue: #63209
My previous windows stylus support pr: #165323

This pr now adds pressure and tilt information and stylus button support on linux.

This work is based on the windows stylus button support pr which adds inverted stylus to the embedder

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@github-actions github-actions Bot added engine flutter/engine related. See also e: labels. f: scrolling Viewports, list views, slivers, etc. platform-linux Building on or for Linux specifically a: desktop Running on desktop team-linux Owned by the Linux platform team labels May 20, 2026
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This pull request introduces support for stylus pressure, rotation, and eraser state in the Flutter Linux platform shell by defining a new FlPointerDeviceState struct and propagating it through the pointer and engine event pipelines. The review feedback highlights a redundant assignment to fl_event.pressure and the need to convert GDK's rotation values from degrees to radians. Additionally, the feedback points out that GDK maps the stylus eraser tool to kFlutterPointerDeviceKindInvertedStylus rather than kFlutterPointerDeviceKindStylus, which requires updating both the button mapping logic and the corresponding unit tests to ensure correct behavior.

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@CodeDoctorDE CodeDoctorDE force-pushed the linux/stylus-state branch 2 times, most recently from cf8a98c to 570fed7 Compare May 29, 2026 22:37
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Please ignore the windows changes, they all come from the rebasing on the required embedder changes in #183369

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Some initial thoughts to clarify things!

@robert-ancell I assume you want to check this out too?

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Done, need to wait for #187629 until it is ready to merge

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Since the pr was merged, I rebased this branch to the newest master. This pr is ready to review now

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Ah yup, sorry for the delay!

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autosubmit label was removed for flutter/flutter/186831, because The base commit of the PR is older than 7 days and can not be merged. Please merge the latest changes from the main into this branch and resubmit the PR.

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Github says This branch has conflicts that must be resolved should i rebase it?

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And btw, google testing suceed: [Google testing](https://github.com/flutter/flutter/pull/186831/checks?check_run_id=83330778785)Successful in 132m — Tests passed

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Github says This branch has conflicts that must be resolved should i rebase it?

Yes please :)

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i have made a mistake when rebasing, i will fix it right now

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I'm finished with rebasing and tested my changes again. Was more work than expected, should be now ready

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via-guy pushed a commit to via-guy/flutter that referenced this pull request Jun 26, 2026
flutter#188343)

Fixed an argument ordering problem on onPointerDown on windows.
This bug was introduced in flutter#187629 and found by gemini in
flutter#188341 (comment).

Additionally I changed the tests to have different values for rotation
and pressure to also test for this bug.

PS: I can't change this pull request to be active since i can only have
one pr open (this is currently open: flutter#186831)
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LGTM but I'm not a GTK expert. Approving so that Google tests run, but please also get an approval from @robert-ancell or @mattkae before merging.

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