Bell confusion with master vs. slave devices in Xorg 1.7.6
Alan Coopersmith
alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
Mon Apr 19 07:47:10 PDT 2010
Peter Hutterer wrote:
>> Why not have the slave inherit the volume level of the master when it is
>> attached?
>
> Careful here - a client may change the bell on just one device and detach it
> (or implicitly detach with a grab). In this case, the device shouldn't
> inherit the bell volume from the master again - that's why it was set on the
> device directly.
>
> Where the above approach would work is on the first EnableDevice() for this
> device - this is guaranteed to be the first attachment and the one where we
> may change the bell volume based on the MD.
Should xset on the VCK update the values in defaultKeyboardControl then?
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System
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