Does XOrg not have any proper HID support at all?

[Cedric Sodhi]

Ok, in all detail, I would not have neglected to describe the whole situation if I had known that you'd like to hear it - was just trying to keep it short, or, as I usually put it:

I was trying to keep it abstract to make it as hard as possible to find a solution.

^^

In my case the application I'm doing this for is The GIMP, but please be reminded that this is just an example and you could take any other application where such problem could occur. So please, even if you know that coming versions of the GIMP solve this or know another, GIMP sepcific solution to this, don't mention it, I'm looking for a generic XOrg specific way which solves this once and for good!

Particularily, I want to make a space-navigator device [1] control the view in the GIMP by MAPPING BUTTONS TO AXES, because the GIMP lacks native support to properly map axes to actions.

But usually anything interactive such as panning, scrolling, etc requires configuring a specific repeat-rate and of course, the button itsself. EVDev doesn't support proper repeat rates not to mention axes beyond X and Y.

I hope this became very clear now.

PS: Please rule out other solutions, I've quite checked everything and X is not only the only possible options, it is also the GENERIC and THUS PREFFERED way of managing such a setup.

Thanks.

[1] http://www.3dconnexion.com/products/spacenavigator.html

On 07/26/2010 02:11 PM, Daniel Stone wrote:
> (Please don't drop the list from CC.)
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> On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 01:04:10PM +0200, Cedric Sodhi wrote:
>> Yes.
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>> In more detail: Evdev does not appear to have ANY mention of other axes besides X and Y in its config - which renderes it practically a mouse driver rather than anything HID related.
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> What _exactly_ are you trying to do?
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