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

[Tom Horsley]

On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 19:16:27 -0500
Tom Horsley wrote:

> Actually, the dead simplest hack (which I may decide to do) would
> be a shell script that reads the output from dbus-monitor and
> switches on the messages it prints to invoke xinput commands :-).

Well, I went and did it, and the horrifying thing is that it
works quite well.

See this attachment:

http://bugzilla-attachments.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=148570

to this bugzilla:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=603103

I now start this script in the background in my .xsession file,
and it keeps my drag lock settings around even across hotplug
activity.