[Xorg] xserver input

Egbert Eich eich at suse.de
Mon May 31 06:55:53 PDT 2004


Jon Smirl writes:
 > Is xserver going to switch away from using the VT driver for keyboard input and
 > start using the event interface? VT is inherently single user and the event
 > interface supports multiple users. You should be able to use the event interface
 > and then use the VT enter/leave events to know when to stop listening. 
 > 

Eventually that should happen. We still would have to leave in the 
VT handling as we need to be able to support a wider range of kernels.

However this is only one piece in the multi seat equasion as other parts
of the code make this single user assumption, too.

Egbert.




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