From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 22 01:12:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA15407 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 22 Jun 1998 01:12:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au (rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au [129.78.129.109]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA15233; Mon, 22 Jun 1998 01:11:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au) Received: (from dawes@localhost) by rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au (8.8.5/8.8.2) id SAA01298; Mon, 22 Jun 1998 18:11:00 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <19980622181059.02296@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 18:10:59 +1000 From: David Dawes To: Mike Smith Cc: Amancio Hasty , sos@FreeBSD.ORG, Randall Hopper , nirva@ishiboo.com, hasty@netcom.com, yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X-10 Mouse Remote patch References: <199806220534.WAA12759@rah.star-gate.com> <199806220437.VAA03573@antipodes.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.69 In-Reply-To: <199806220437.VAA03573@antipodes.cdrom.com>; from Mike Smith on Sun, Jun 21, 1998 at 09:37:05PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Jun 21, 1998 at 09:37:05PM -0700, Mike Smith wrote: >> I am working on a daemon however I still think that fxtv should gets >> its mouse support from the X server and not necessarily from a >> moused thingy 8) > >If there's a mechanism for passing abstract/custom (non-mouse, >non-keyboard) events in to the server where they may be discarded or >consumed at the whim of a requesting application, sure. I have no idea what these events might be (I haven't been following this very closely), but if they are generated by an input device and don't really match the standard pointer or keyboard then maybe the XInput extension might be useful at the X server end? David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message