Subject: Re: On wscons, mice, and keyboards
To: Lennart Augustsson <augustss@cs.chalmers.se>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: current-users
Date: 07/29/1998 11:25:45
On Wed, 29 Jul 1998 20:08:11 +0200 (MET DST)
Lennart Augustsson <augustss@cs.chalmers.se> wrote:
> I think that could work pretty well for mice. A little complication
> in the daemon is that it has to watch for new mice being connected
> (and possibly create new device node if you run out).
Err... that only makes sense for e.g. USB mice. It makes no sense
for serial mice and for PS/2 mice, etc. So, what you want is perhaps
a "run this script on this USB event" thing, which is configurable, or
something. It would then run the appropriate ioctl to redirect the new
mouse's events, etc.
> I think a harder to do this way are keyboards. I'm not sure
> how to persuade X to use a multiplexor for the terminal and
> get it to work. But I've not looked into the keyboard issue
> much yet.
So, what you want here is a similar config file mechanism as XFree86 has
for mice.
Actually, in a perfect world, you want to specify:
(1) One or more display /dev/... files
(2) One or more keyboard /dev/... files
(3) One or more mouse /dev/... files
(4) How they should be glued together, e.g.:
glue display0 kbd0 mouse0
glue display1 kbd2 mouse1
...etc to make different X screens.
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