The mtview tool shows a graphical view of a kernel multitouch device. It reads events directly off the kernel device and is thus unaffected by any userspace processing.

This repository is a fork from the discontinued http://bitmath.org/code/mtview/

git clone https://github.com/whot/mtview
cd mtview
./autogen.sh
./configure
make

mtview does not need to be installed.

sudo ./tools/mtview /dev/input/event0

Substitute the event node with the one for your touchpad device. Note that mtview uses a kernel grab on the device node and events from that device will not be delivered to any other process while mtview is running (including the X server or Wayland).

To terminate, Alt-tab back to the terminal and Ctrl-C the process.

mtview is licensed under the GPLv3. See LICENSE for details.