Welcome to surface-dial-ubuntu-gnome

Work in progress. It's currently hardcoded to the following events:

rotate counter clockwise: Mouse scroll up
rotate clockwise: Mouse scroll down
pressed/released: Mouse pressed/released

Usage

You need to install version 1.2.0 of python-evdev or higher. Unfortunately, most distributions seem to package 1.1.2, so you might have to force an update.

$ sudo pip3 install -U evdev

Download the Repo and extract it

cd ~/Downloads && wget https://github.com/runekaagaard/surface-dial-ubuntu-gnome/archive/master.zip

Using the command below unzip, and move the program file to your home directory.

~/Downloads$ unzip master.zip && mv ~/Downloads/surface-dial-ubuntu-gnome-master/surface-dial-ubuntu-gnome.py ~/ && cd ~

Make sure the Dial is paired via bluetooth, then simply run the command:

$ sudo ./surface-dial-ubuntu-gnome.py

Acknowledgements

Based of https://github.com/linux-surface/surface-fix-eraser by @StollD.