From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
To: "Ville Syrjälä" <syrjala@sci.fi>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>,
Michel D?nzer <michel@tungstengraphics.com>,
xorg@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-input@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Warning: evdev changes - no auto-grabs anymore
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:49:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080815144939.GV4462@implementation.uk.xensource.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080815143921.GC16680@sci.fi>
Ville Syrjälä, le Fri 15 Aug 2008 17:39:21 +0300, a écrit :
> This also affect DirectFB and it was the original reason why I added
> EVIOCGRAB code to DirectFB's linux-input driver. Grabbing didn't cause
> problems back then but now that the input subsystem is used by
> rfkill/acpi/etc. functionalitys is lost when the devices are grabbed.
Also note that some (root-launched) daemons like brltty would like to be
notified of some given keyboard shortcut. What they end up doing for
now is grabbing all the keyboard, and re-emiting all the keys through a
uinput.
Samuel
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2008-08-15 8:26 ` Warning: evdev changes - no auto-grabs anymore Ville Syrjälä
2008-08-15 14:10 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2008-08-15 14:31 ` Daniel Stone
2008-08-15 14:38 ` Alan Cox
2008-08-15 14:49 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2008-08-15 14:39 ` Ville Syrjälä
2008-08-15 14:49 ` Samuel Thibault [this message]
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