Re: [ANNOUNCE] System Inactivity Monitor v1.0

[Mattia Dongili]

On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 08:02:57PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Tue 2007-01-23 20:01:07, Mattia Dongili wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 05:34:42PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > [...]
> > > > Do you believe it could be a user-space daemon or what?
> > > 
> > > Yes, what prevents userspace daemon watching /dev/input/event* to
> > > provide this functionality?
> > 
> > hmmm... EVIOCGRAB for example? the synaptics Xorg driver is using
> > it, maybe others too?
> > I don't want to start a new discussion about it, just provide an answer
> > to your question :)
> 
> I do not know how EVIOCGRAB works, I believe event* will _still_ see

AFAIK once an opener has eviocgrab-ed the device no other opener will
receive events.

> the events. Anyway, if not, I guess EVIOCGRAB can be fixed/removed/ we
> can add EVIOCGIVEMEALLTHEDATAREALLYIWANTIT.

then probably pbuttonsd is already doing something similar to SI[NM]
hmmm... was it pbuttonsd? oh, yes:
http://pbbuttons.sourceforge.net/projects/pbbuttonsd/
-- 
mattia
:wq!
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