From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Per Jessen <per@computer.org>
Subject: Re: 113: plugin/keyboard vs. plugin/kbd_unicode ?
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 11:49:50 +0200
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Stas Sergeev wrote:

> Hello.
> 
> Per Jessen wrote:
> 
>> In plugin/kbd_unicode, "no keyboard" is explicitly recognised,
>> but doesn't seem to default to reading stdin ?
> 
> Looking in keyb_none.c it seems
> that "no keyboard" does absolutely
> nothing - just a dummy client.
> Raw keyboard client seems to be
> using stdin (see raw_keyboard_init() ).


Yeah, I saw that too - but when the actual keyboard client is
selected, it seems that raw is only picked if some option for
running as root is also picked ? (I'm away from my office,
can't check the code)

>> Eric Biedermans kbd_unicode looks somewhat cleaner, but it is
>> not the default that is "shipped"?
> 
> It is default since 1.1.3.2 so
> upgrade if you are going to do
> some hacking.


Thanks - that's exactly what I was looking for. I already went with the
kbd-unicode stuff - works fine.

> As of your other message: lredir
> still works OK for me (1.1.3.2)


OK, guess I'll have to do some more checking.


thanks,
Per