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There should be a brief description how to build it - even if this is considered trivial. Especially, is there a way to make an out-of-source build, so the no files are generated in the git source folder? Seems autogen.sh must be invoked from the source folder and will always generate files there?

Program can't work without /proc/bus/usb/devices
Please correct this, because /proc/bus/usb/devices is DEPRECATED in current kernel and not using in modern distributives.

Since the last official release (2.0) was in 2012, none of the merged PRs are included, and some distros are still packaging that version, or a locally-modified one.

(Fedora, for instance, adds its own polkit file (#12) and reencodes the ChangeLog file to UTF-8, but otherwise packages 2.0 unmodified from the 2012 release. That means that even the USB-3 bus speed labels (#8) aren't displayed in the Fedora usbview.)

Pushing out a 2.1 release would hopefully spur downstream packagers into updating.

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Matt Lee
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Hello Greg!

I am building a custom device with multiple interfaces and I noticed that usbview does display "Name: (none)" on them although I have set a valid descriptor string for one of them and lsusb does show it too. So I looked into the usbview source, saw that the interfaces are named after the driver if available but could not find any reference to the interface string index... I wondered why and discovered that this is not exported by the (3.8) kernel debugfs at all :)

I have not looked at the kernel source, but I need to hack on the USB subsystem anyway... so do you think it would be useful to export that information via the debugfs at all? Then I could try to do that. Maybe it would make more sense to rewrite usbview to use libusb for such fancy stuff eventually (not that anyone would do that just because of this :)

(I can also repost on usb-linux if you think it needs some more discussion)

Is it possible to add nodes for interfaces and endpoints instead of just output that for each bus:device?

Maybe that's only for input devices, if not, that would be another pro of using a GUI

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=usbview
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usbview

The Debian ones are more relevant I guess.

Thank you in advance!

Subj or ncurses?

I found this article:

https://www.slashdev.ca/2010/05/08/get-usb-report-descriptor-with-linux/

where

         Report Descriptors: 
           ** UNAVAILABLE **

is fixed with:

sudo bash -c "echo -n 1-2:1.0 >/sys/bus/usb/drivers/usbhid/unbind"

where 1-2 is from (not really sure about this):

      bInterfaceSubClass      1 Boot Interface Subclass
      bInterfaceProtocol      2 Mouse

Would be great to see that output in usbview

Parse that info too, but maybe too specific

Hi!

while trying to build on my laptop MSI GS63 Stealth under Kubuntu 21.10 I'm getting build error after calling command make:

make  all-am
make[1]: Entering directory '/mnt/data/repos/github/usbview'
  CC       main.o
mkdir -p $(dirname hicolor/64x64/apps/usbview_icon.xpm)
convert -geometry $(basename $(dirname $(dirname hicolor/64x64/apps/usbview_icon.xpm))) usbview_icon.svg hicolor/64x64/apps/usbview_icon.xpm
convert: no images defined `hicolor/64x64/apps/usbview_icon.xpm' @ error/convert.c/ConvertImageCommand/3322.
make[1]: *** [Makefile:992: hicolor/64x64/apps/usbview_icon.xpm] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/mnt/data/repos/github/usbview'
make: *** [Makefile:359: all] Error 2

What am I doing wrong?

after configuration I saw this summary:

    usbview 2.1
    ===========

    prefix:                 /usr/local
    datarootdir:            ${prefix}/share
    datadir:                ${datarootdir}
    mandir:                 ${datarootdir}/man

    compiler:               gcc
    cflags:                 -g -O2
    ldflags:                

What's your reasoning in preventing me from using Refresh or Quit if the About box is open?

Is there some UI consequence I don't understand?

I happened to have opened the About box, then got distracted by other things that ended up covering up the box, and when I went back the next day to try to Quit usbview, it wouldn't let me. I had to dig around to find the open About box and close it first. I couldn't even click on the About button to toggle the box closed; I had to actually find the box and use Close. Can this be made easier?

Hi,

This is not a bug, just a thought of an enhancement - so want to clearly call it that 😄. It would be nice to show the Vendor and Product name ... from usb.ids (lookup of sorts?).

Just a thought.

Thanks!

two parts to this minor issue:

(1) INSTALL document says to run "configure", but doesn't say that you have to make the configure file (? by running autogen,sh)
and
(2) when I ran autogen.sh it ran correctly but threw up several warnings:
~/git/usbview$ . autogen.sh
aclocal: warning: autoconf input should be named 'configure.ac', not 'configure.in'
automake: warning: autoconf input should be named 'configure.ac', not 'configure.in'
configure.in:4: warning: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE: two- and three-arguments forms are deprecated. For more info, see:
configure.in:4: http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/automake.html#Modernize-AM_005fINIT_005fAUTOMAKE-invocation
configure.in:10: installing './compile'
configure.in:4: installing './install-sh'
configure.in:4: installing './missing'
Makefile.am:3: warning: 'INCLUDES' is the old name for 'AM_CPPFLAGS' (or '*_CPPFLAGS')
Makefile.am: installing './depcomp'
automake: warning: autoconf input should be named 'configure.ac', not 'configure.in'

I'm forwarding a reasonable wishlist that was filed against the debian usbview package, namely a request for a keyboard shortcut 'q' or 'C-q' or 'C-w' or ESC or something like that, to quit. And maybe 'C-l' or 'r' to refresh? (You can navigate to the QUIT button and click it with RET, so it is possible to quit using the keyboard, but inconvenient.)