[Xorg] Input device hotplug
Kristian Høgsberg
krh at bitplanet.net
Tue Jun 29 03:20:27 PDT 2004
Ely Levy wrote:
> Hey,
> just few points from when I looked ar xinput
> 1)It would be nice to have user configurable options
> 2)Mouse wheel should be mapped to zaxis and not buttons 4,5
Well, it really should be a vertical wheel event, I think. Mapping it to
z-axis is also "wrong".
> 3)I think there is some functionality missing like accelated moving
> or tapping.
> 4)allowing more than one core device (mouse/keyboard) to be independed
> from each other, It doesn't make much sense when using on one display
> but if you want for example one keyboard per display for 2 people
> working..
Sure, this is cool stuff, but I'm not sure how much work it would be, or
if it would be worthwhile.
> 5)Personaly I think that xinput should handle keyboard as well,
> (the basic hardware level not the xkb one), I don't know if it's related
> to xinput but probebly some changes in they keysym handling might be
> nice.
In what way? You can change the core keyboard with XInput, what else
should it do?
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Kristian
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