WINDOWPATH environment variable?

[Samuel Thibault]

Hi,

Felix Kühling, le Mon 05 Dec 2005 10:32:37 -0500, a écrit :
> It sounds like you want the arbitration of the output device handled
> consistently with the keyboard focus.

Yes, because some people use the regular pc keyboard while reading on
the braille device.

> So here is an idea: could you run a daemon in the top-level Xserver
> that generates special keyboard events in regular intervals that
> automatically get propagated to the window and the application that
> currently has the keyboard focus.

It is a bit tricky. The problem is that this "special keyboard event"
needs to be mapped to some tty character sequence, which needs be
defined in terminfo, etc. Pretty hairy.

The problem too is that this solution would require applications to
re-send their output whenever focus gets back to them.  This is not how
usual tty applications work, so it won't be easy for programmers to use.

Regards,
Samuel