xinput: Do I want xorg.conf? Do I want hal? Do I want udev?

Luciano Montanaro mikelima at gmail.com
Thu Nov 26 04:59:21 PST 2009


On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Julien Cristau <jcristau at debian.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 07:14:16 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote:
>
>> I see that I get dbus system messages when I plug or unplug a
>> mouse or keyboard. Is the grand plan to have a per user daemon
>> listening for these and re-applying xinput settings when they
>> show up? Does this daemon exist already and I just don't know
>> its name? Do we really need yet another daemon? How long before
>> linux runs out of PIDs? :-).
>>
> AFAIK that daemon exists and is called gnome-settings-daemon.
>

Erm... and on system where gnome is not installed?


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