I don't want my IR handset to act like a keyboard

[Paul Bender]

On 1/12/2010 2:55 PM, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Tony Houghton<h at realh.co.uk>  wrote:
>> On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 13:07:03 -0800
>> Paul Bender<pebender at san.rr.com>  wrote:
>>
>>> My solution to this problem is customized udev scripts. Essentially, if
>>> the device is a remote, then udev does not set x11_driver. Since
>>> x11_driver is not set, Xorg ignores the device completely.
>>
>> Oh good, that is still possible. Could you tell me how? I couldn't work
>> out what to do, or even if there was anything I could do, from the udev
>> docs.
>
> It's gone in master (and probably soon from debian/ubuntu). The server
> just grabs everything marked with ID_INPUT by udev.

As Xorg is not the only input device handler, this would seem to be a 
bug / design flaw that should be fixed before 1.8 is released. If not, 
distributions will need to hack around it in their udev scripts by 
clearing ID_INPUT whenever they do not want Xorg to grab the device.