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From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Subject: Re: Warning: evdev changes - no auto-grabs anymore
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:49:39 +0100
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Ville Syrj=E4l=E4, le Fri 15 Aug 2008 17:39:21 +0300, a =E9crit :
> 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