Subject: Re: multiple consumers of msmux
To: Lennart Augustsson <lennart@augustsson.net>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: tech-misc
Date: 05/16/2003 10:03:02
Does it seem like something that would be generally useful?
Maybe by having a separate device similar to wsmuxctl?
On Thu, 15 May 2003, Lennart Augustsson wrote:
> No, that's currently not possible. Well, you could set something up
> with two muxes, and your program would pass the unused events from
> one to the other, but it would be awkward.
>
> David wrote:
>
> > I have a keyboard with a random selection of extra keys, which I'd
> > like to map to do something useful with mserv. Its trivial enough
> > to do this in a window manager under X, but I'd like something
> > that works all the time.
> >
> > Is it possible to open the keyboard wsmux without disrupting the
> > normal use? (So I could have a small daemon listening to the
> > keyboard events and acting on the special keys).
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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