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

[Timothy S. Nelson]

On Fri, 27 Nov 2009, Peter Hutterer wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 09:34:38AM -0500, Tom Horsley wrote:
>> On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:19:52 -0500
>> Tom Horsley wrote:
>>
>>> That might be the very thing! There is even a fedora package
>>> for it. I'm off to crank it up and see if I can get it
>>> to work they way I want. Thanks!
>>
>> Unfortunately, just like gnome-mouse-properties, there is
>> nothing in this tool that will handle the button mapping or
>> drag lock changes I want :-(.
>
> As with much of input, we've been in a transitional phase for the last years
> to turn from the old static system into a more flexible and dynamic one. X
> is on the bottom of the stack, so any change needs to be reflected in the
> upper layers - and they're not necessarily there yet.
>
> We're slowly catching up, but not as quick as some would like us and many
> options are still not exposed - drag lock being one example.
>
> So here's the cardhouse:
> As you said, the single xorg.conf file isn't really suited to evdev (or the
> other way round). The input system is now aimed at per-device, per-session
> (runtime) configuration. Static configuration is possible, but discouraged.
> You can dop keys into the HAL configuration, but that'll go away eventually
> with udev.

 	Does this mean that he should be configuring udev?  I've written my 
own udev files (for usb storage) before; I found it annoying, but possible.

[For the record, as far as udev was concerned, I just had to make another file 
to go in /etc/udev/rules.d/ ].

 	HTH,


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